I keep forgetting words and how to do simple things. I even forgot my daughter’s name and had to look it up. I forgot how to make coffee. I just stood there staring and started crying because I knew I should know, but my mind was blank no matter how hard I tried. I felt so dumb. It’s been going on for a long time, but it’s so much worse now. More frequent. I used to believe (and, admittedly, still do, just not as strongly) that my memory problems were due to these creatures that would drill into my skull and steal parts of my brain. My old therapist helped me see that that’s probably a delusion, though. I’m not sure, but I guess I can sort of agree that it’s not as likely as me just being dumb.
Anyways, do you deal with memory problems like this? Could it be from the AP? My clinician talked to my pdoc and said it’s probably just stress. But could it be the meds? I’m scared to keep taking it if it’s going to cause me to forget everything.
Yeah Stress can do some strange things and I think it may depend on your family history. I forget a lot of stuff but I’m 47 and my poor old brain has been through some stuff. It’s a shitter when you forget your pin number for your handicard and your standing at the autoteller…I can feel your pain!
I wouldn’t be too worried about it but, as always, Check with your doctor and your regular doc. Loss of memory can be on the agenda for things but I saw once that people with schizophrenia didn’t get alzheimers…I wonder how true that is!
I run into same kind of issues but mine feels more like a brain rot. I just try to keep working to keep this kind of problem away…Also better to schedule reading or TV time to avoid DUH or totally out of touch. Really quit listening to the radio long ago as no more commute as no longer capable of full-time due to insomnia/non-stop voices 13 years (medicated or not). Found the radio DJ chatter around here really insulting sometimes and just quit listening…Haven’t gotten into the online radio thing with few ads, has to be better. But found myself unable to remember lots of the words from songs from my youth…Don’t work well with music with words any longer, just brain fries me so switched to classical and some new age anyway.
OMG. this sounds somewhat similar to me… Does this affect you all the time or does it come and go? Because not quite the same but one day I was asked to help my mum and looking at the piece of paper and I wanted to cry. I know I can read but it felt like I couldn’t… I just wasn’t able to process anything my mind just stood me up when I needed it… I also called the insurance company and I forgot why i called them… i had questions but I didn’t know why I was asking them… but i felt better after an hour… where you overwhelmed at the time? stress can definately do it… depression maybe a reason too…
It’s been going on for several years. Usually only once in a while, forgetting a word here or there, staring a little too long at someone talking to me because I couldn’t remember why we were talking, getting stranded somewhere temporally because I couldn’t remember how to get home, that sort of thing. But this last week it’s been happening a LOT. Like, several times a day every day. So, it could definitely be stress related, but I also wonder if the sz is partially responsible.
I forgot how to make coffee. I just stood there staring and started crying because I knew I should know, but my mind was blank no matter how hard I tried. I felt so dumb. It’s been going on for a long time, but it’s so much worse now. More frequent. I used to believe (and, admittedly, still do, just not as strongly) that my memory problems were due to these creatures that would drill into my skull and steal parts of my brain. My old therapist helped me see that that’s probably a delusion, though. I’m not sure, but I guess I can sort of agree that it’s not as likely as me just being dumb.