My memory is getting so bad

That, my memory problems are more and more obvious, I forget things after a minute I heard them. Too I am forgetting a lot of memories, and all of that is getting more and more obvious to my close family/friends day a day.

This is a real ■■■■.

I haven’t see/read any of you like this, surely my disease is much worse and more difficult to treat, that good :slightly_smiling_face:

I hope all of you are doing well, and having a good night too :heart:

Same. It gets worse for me when I am not doing well. It can be very upsetting. It feels like your brain is slipping away.

Psychosis eats away at your brain and can give all kinds of cognitive issues.

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This sucks, in your case get better with time ? Mine is worsing and worsing. Are thay so obvious too? I feel like the person with the worst illness in earth. @Anna

Are you on meds? I know for people that are unmedicated it tends to degenerate more and more over the years.

Mine has definitely kept declining from when I was younger…it’s like it does get better when I’m out of an episode but it’s now worse than it was before if that makes sense.

Psychosis is horrible.

I was on a very good doctor that put me on antipsichotics, but I tought that it will get worse my brain in a long therm and I stop taking… All my life have been errors…

Thanks for the informacion in my other topic too, you seem a very intelligent person :kissing_heart: @Anna

My memory’s bad too. But it’s peculiar. I don’t completely forget, I remember bits of things(too small to be useful often) and if I pursue those thoughts through some very painful searching I can finish the puzzle. And it’s annoying because I get obsessive about remembering things that aren’t necessary to remember. So i torment myself with this throughout the day.

Do you know any way to recover all this…? @Anna

Antipsychotic medication actually protects your brain from the damage caused by psychosis. Every psychotic episode makes you lose some gray matter in your brain. Luckily, if you take your medicine every day and do some brain training exercises, it is possible to reverse the damage. People used to think any brain damage in adults was permanent, but we now know that’s not true.

Taking Sarcosine has helped me with my memory and cognition. I also do puzzle games. If you play a memory-based game, your memory skills will get stronger. It takes practice, like me anything else.

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I too was like you a few years ago, even repeated full conversations on my head to be sure. Now don’t even try to remember because I don’t remember what I want remember.

I’m getting forgetful myself. I’m thinking it could be early onset Alzheimer’s. That’s what killed both my parents.

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I too was convinced like some disease like Alzheimer, or even frontotemporal dementia, but it’s so weird, at least at my age… I would prefer something like that and not being suffering all life :roll_eyes:

I’m sorry abour your parents … @crimby

I helped my mom take care of my dad for the last 2 years of his life, he died of dementia (Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia), I saw first hand the suffering it caused.

They lived long and productive lives. They weren’t perfect, and they had their share of tribulation, but I still think their lives were mostly good.

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Over the course of about 8 years, I lost 51 IQ points. I couldn’t find anything, remember anything, etc. Even the dishes in my own cabinet did not have a home - I couldn’t remember where to put them. My attention span was so bad that I’d drive off the shoulder of the road every few seconds when driving. I also was without speech frequently. I wanted to die; I saw no hope for the problem.

Instead of killing myself, I decided to do a lot of learning to build new neural pathways that I needed to replace the ones I lost to brain damage. Doing so SAVED MY LIFE on a number of levels.

Lynda.com is a wonderful place to start if you struggle with learning on your own like I did.
Building new neural pathways via learning is simply the most natural way for a brain to heal from this sort of damage. But when it begins to happen, it is clearly worth it. My life has improved so much as a result of pushing myself to get my brain power back. It is not a helpless situation. Neuroscience tells us that our brains, particularly our cognition, can be repaired. Mine has been and it was a big surprise that I got back as much as I did.

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My sister does the same thing, forgets things right after I told her. I know she’s on clozaril

Can you tell me what kind of page is Lynda ?
I’m going to try find some in Spanish

Lynda.com has tons of classes that a person can take for a flat rate starting at, I think, $20 per month. There are a lot of options. I think they also have a free trial for ten days. And if you don’t want to pay the money YouTube has a lot of educational videos, too. It’s harder to find good ones but there are a lot out there.