I’m paranoid about forgetting things now.
Forgetting things naturally happens every so often. So I’m getting randomly stressed out about it.
I asked A.I. about schizophrenia and dementia and I wished I hadn’t! Apparently schizophrenia dramatically increases your risk, especially if you were late diagnosed like me.
There are some things you can do to decrease the risk of it happening but not by much.
Anyway, that’s how I’m torturing myself at the moment.
Are you prepared to do the exercise, eat healthily and keep cognitively challenged by taking up new hobbies?
I saw a program about how such things especially hobbies really keep the mind young. Learn an instrument, painting and learning a language were used as examples.
No. So I’m doomed.
It is in your hands though. what can motivate you?
It may sound harsh but some people seem to enjoy wallowing in their sorrows.
In fact it is pretty common.
Do you have a therapist to work though why you would do this to yourself, perhaps?
My sorrows last hours and are not constant.
I look forward to it ending.
If you don’t meditate then cheat with meditation by doing brain.fm. It really helps to trick the mind into focusing, sleeping, relaxing and meditating.
I am finding it really helps me for what it is worth.
I get like that sometimes. It’s only natural. I’m convinced that whatever comes next will be just as bad though. If not worse. Assuming there’s anything.
Anyway, maybe I won’t get dementia.
I needed to hear this man..I forget that suffering never lasts. Im going through today but instead of wanting to end it i just want to not have these issues…
Also ..I hope you dont get it @everhopeful
Also.. I hope you sont end it @labratmat
I meant the hours of sorrow ending.
Not that I care much about it ending anyway.
Life is all about tricking the mind into something new. Changing the mindset. Approaching from a different angle.
Getting a nap or sleep in, but enjoying it rather than sulk in it. I say to myself how lucky i am not to be bootlicking in an office. I can just sleep when i want and I love sleep for example.
Sorry, I misunderstood. That’s good then.
I am not sure whether Schrodinger’s cat in a box meant it this way, but for me when i die, I won’t know I am dead. In the same breath, I can say that I don’t really know I am alive either.
I am the cat in the box in a way or am I?
You see from my experience of a fugue episode I didn’t know I was alive until I woke up 4 weeks later. In that time I wasn’t experienceing anything. It didn’t hurt. That is how i know that i didn’t know i was ‘dead’.
There isn’t really alive or dead if when i die I didn’t know i existed.
I am not afraid of death whatsoever.
@everhopeful , be careful with AI. It’s likely telling you that’s statistically true because most schizophrenics don’t properly seek treatment. If all of us sought treatment I’m sure the stats would be much better.
I’m scared too.
Dementia runs in my family.
Your brain lives 20 minutes after you die. But if you’re unconscious you wouldn’t be aware of passing. I just thought this was interesting.
I have the same problem. There is no imprint in my long-term memory, so I write things down and save them. I agree with those that named this illness dementia paradox way back. It is kind of like that.
I need to keep my brain active. I already don’t do perfectly on the dementia screening I get annually
I have dementia probably. Hopefully it won’t get too bad. I’m 69.
I constantly worry about things too it ruins my life. Try to forget enjoy being in the moment. I wish I was my Mom she lives in the moment I don’t know how she does it she never worries
I always worry about money. I have a house. When I first moved in it needed a roof, washer and dryer, new air conditioner motor, and my car kept breaking. Things are good so far. Saving a nest egg for catastrophes. May need a new car in 5 years. I got 5 birthdays in November I gotta get gifts for. Everything costs money.
We all have to carry the cross
the reward is awesome
after life
I am extremely worried I am having a somekind of memory illness. I have been to a brain MRI because I was so worried… The results were that nothing is wrong. But I can still feel it. It is not normal to have this sort of problems with memory at 38 years old.