Episodic memory is the memory of autobiographical events (times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual who, what, when, where, why knowledge)
that can be explicitly stated. It is the collection of past personal
experiences that occurred at a particular time and place. For example,
if you remember the party on your 6th birthday, this is an episodic
memory. They allow you to figuratively travel back in time to remember
the event that took place at that particular time and place.
Because I totally can’t. I can remember facts. Very very well. Ask me what chips are used in Amiga 500 and I know. How stuff works. How medication work. I know everything about medical science, medication, devices, math, physics, biology, anything.
But I can’t f-ing recall my past. ask me about any birthday. of mine or mine or anyone else? how was my last birthday celebration? i have no recollection. what did I do on my last vacation? I might know only 5 seconds of it. I can’t remember my past life. It’s killing me.
I mean if someone gives me a hint i’ll remember occasions. like “do you remember that white horse at that farm?” yes. I’ll remember. But I won’t know when it was. Was it 6 months ago? or was it 6 years ago?
This makes me panic because I have no sense of Identity. No past → no Identity
Is it a normal schizophrenic symptom? Or is it something else? do I even have schizophrenia?
I read on Wikipedia that people with Autism have this sometimes. Maybe I have Asperger’s instead?
Please give me feedback whether this is common with schizophrenia or not. Even if you don’t have it and your Episodic memory is brilliant, give me a hint. think of it as a poll.
I need to know whether this is from schizophrenia or unrelated to it.
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My first time in the hospital was such a damn blurr. One minute I was getting Thorazine and haldol and then the next I was back in school. They should’ve never let me back so soon…that year drove me crazy I ended up in the hospital two more times the next summer
No idea if it’s related to the sz or not, but I have a pretty sporadic memory. Like, I can sometimes remember the most mundane things that happened 5 years ago in great detail, but I can’t remember the large majority of my life. Even the events that people are like “oh, you’ll never forget this.” I forget them. If I see pictures I can kind of remember things, but even then I think it’s just my mind filling in gaps after seeing a picture and I don’t really know if it’s real or not. Not sure if that makes sense.
I totally mean this. I have pictures of me I totally can’t remember what they are about. like having long hair standing somewhere among some people I actually should know… and I don’t know shoot
I have schizophrenia, I can remember my past, and I know when events happened. Don’t get me wrong, my memory is hazy and sparodic though. I definitely have memory problems.
I have the same memory loss and I am a diagnosed schizophrenic if that helps. I know the feeling I will forget imporantant events and the people that were there It can be embarassing. I get really frustrated but ive learned to live with the memory loss. Try to roll with it.
Simple answer- no. To use an analogy it’s like a radio that hasn’t been tuned in properly. My brother remembers shared episodes from the past much more clearly than I do.
Oh i get it now, no past no identity, ooohhhhhhh. Thats why some people do that, they want to rob you of your identity, ooooohhhhhhhh now i get it. Yeah i live with memory tampering gas lighting types of folks, can’t seem to escape them really, they are quite creepy at times.
Yeah i remember everything in me past. I don’t try to often though to think of the past but i remember it.
Most of it was just boring crap. Useless to even remember.
I have slight problems with episodic memory as well, and just like you, not so much with recollection of facts (semantic memory). It doesn’t get me into any trouble, and it doesn’t affect me up to the point of losing a sense of identity. But I have noticed it. Not sure what can be done about it. It does make me a bit self-conscious at times when a friend recalls some situation, and, like you say, I don’t have a clue what day this was supposed to have happened. If it was just a week ago I’d know but not, say, half a year ago. There is some grim humor here: I can’t quite recollect when this all started.
You could try journalling… Or forcing a mental review of things at the end of the day… Even going a few days back… Make it a game of sorts…
I started to try and do this with the food I’d eaten. Used to be I couldn’t recall what I had for breakfast.
Improving memory is all about associations… Make as many bridges as you can to each event… I think it can become automatic eventually.
Memonics… There are tricks to it. Ironically… I don’t remember many of them.
Typically my imagination just takes over and fills in the details.
Some people remember pi by creating syllabic replacements and constructing words and a story of sorts… Really though its a waste of human effort (what’s not anyway)… 3.141593…8? for most applications that’s all you need to know…
Accuracy to 8 specific digits… Most casual measurements aren’t going to come close to that.
Although repeating pi might be a way to distract from voices… They wouldn’t have much to feed off of given a string of numbers.
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