So, I’ve hit a weird realization. I’m having a lot of problems with numbers lately. First, it was just me misremembering my SSN and mixing it with my dad’s simultaneously once without even noticing. More recently, I’ve been having trouble doing statistics at my job (forgot formulas, numbers looked weird/wrong, misread them), am having trouble doing basic mental math (I couldn’t do 8*32 mentally earlier when my bf asked what it was), and I lost track of numbers when I was trying to input grades the other day for an exam the students took.
So, this leads me to my question. Have any of you lost cognition in a specific area? If yes, did it happen relatively rapidly?
i was in accounts at work, now i cant even add up properly. i thought i was starting with dementia because of how serious it is. i cant even work out my budget for the week after getting paid eve if i have written it down i still overspend.
My voices have this same problem with me and they say they don’t want to deal with it because nobody is going to accept me; no thanks to them. I can’t focus to much on my school work and I get physically and mentally tortured by the voices, but coming back to stigma on the new member. Don’t give up hope just remember you have done nothing wrong and nothing is withholding you from a free happy life.
I was always a good student but when I hit 14 years old my math went to ■■■■. I ended up matriculating to Uni with a low result in math 1 and 2 ( math and harder math out here ). After that I specialised in English but I’ve been dumb in math ever since!
For the record. Depressive break at 23. Went psychotic at 29. I still think one of the danger signs for my mind was the loss of the ability in math! I think it really was indicative of my eventual diagnosis of schizophrenia!
Remember that 80 something percent of schizophrenics deal with some form of cognitive dysfunction. I would say that if you can’t do tough calculations in your head, that may reflect schizophrenia symptoms in this domain. People with schizophrenia can suffer from all sorts of issues, ranging from havinving a hard time paying attention, to issues with executive functions (very important for reasoning and problem solving used in doing math).
I lost a huge amount of my cognitive functioning a few days after my psychotic break, specifically in the area of verbal fluency. For quite a few months or years I could not even put sentences together or communicate verbally. I actually still struggle with this. So cognitive issues arose very acutely for me but have fluctuated over time.
It may not be an issue with cognition, maybe negative symptoms or even thought disorder (disorganized symptoms) is the cause. It could also be a combination of different symptoms. I don’t know what symptoms you have.
@Anon10, I was suspecting thought disorder as a possibility since I show other signs of thought disorder like circumstantiality, which my bf has pointed out to me personally.
I’m a mechanical engineer but after this illness I don’t remember anything of what I knew, this is about 5 months that I can read and comprehend again and I’ve started from scratch like doing simple math and basic physics,
after i was first put on any psychotropic medication when i was like, 12, i noticed my ability to do math seemed to go down. with that said, ive never been good at remembering numbers. i forget them instantly, i only know two or three phone numbers and im constantly second guessing my own when people ask for it. i tend to switch numbers around a lot for some reason
