Wow - thank you for bringing up this subject. i'm recently dx'd with adhd and bipolar within past couple years.

Long before i tried any medication i did start having memory problems in my 20's. i also had children in my 20's.

Before this i could memorize anything. I should be honest and say i did smoke a lot of pot in my teens, thinking it calmed me down. I cant stand pot now, throws me too off balance.

This has to be part of the illness. Maybe we take in so much information and come up with so many ideas that there are not enough folders in the brain. (they say this about adhd).

Maybe this is grandiose thinking - i'm still learning about bipolar - but i think about such far out stuff like energy work, quantum physics, multiple dimensions. I used to feel really smart and brainy, but lately it's all overwhelm, probably because i'm almost 40 and have lived with bipolar and adhd without learning many coping skills.

I think i really digressed, but there has to be a link with the memory issues and bipolar. I want to find out more about it. Maybe supplements like gingko biloba would help us.