Before i got sick i use to remember song lyrics pretty well but now i have difficultly. i also was noted today as saying i like my mother in laws mexican style pork chops but apparently i’ve said that before i just don’t remember. I repeat myself a lot. Like i told my mother in law something today that i’ve told her a few times before.
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I noticed when I became schizophrenic I drifted into amnesia not realizing I had it until a couple months in. Friends would remind me of stories of when we had been hanging out and I wouldn’t remember any of it. I still remember very little of my past and the medication I’m on has made my memory worse. I’ve learned to accept the things I cannot change. My only real concern is that I can’t seem to ever remember if I took my medication or not and I’m afraid I’ll double dose or miss a dose each day.
I have memory problems, working memory (short term cognitive load) problems. For example, I will be doing something, then remember to do something else while I am doing it, then proceed halfway to do the other thing and forget what I had in mind. An example- cooking a steak, paying close attention so it doesnt get well done and rough and gray and shitty- I remember my phone is upstairs- I go to my bedroom to get my phone- get sidetracked, derailed in my room and then just stand in my room wondering why I went there.
Or like when I am in a very complex conversation, I forget which the topic was and go off the rails about something else, then need to be reminded what my metaphor or analogy is even alluding to.
I had this happen too. Then I realized I don’t drive much now to commute to anything so I’m not listening to radio much. I also kind of go into a jam up when I listen to music with lyrics and read (while I study). So, I gave up most of the stuff with lyrics for instrumentals only.