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Originally Posted by Bark
My short-term is horrible! It's been driving me crazy. My memory for faces, names, conversations, things to do, things I did....
I'm going to start the washing machine again because I forgot to add detergent; this is after I already forgot once. So I've been washing one and a half cycles in water!
If I get distracted, I forget what I was talking about and often need a prompt. Sometimes the distraction is my own mind!
Any suggestions, strategies? It's never been great, but now it's horrible. Once I had memory problems caused by a medication I was on. Now I'm not on any psychotropic medications, but it's about as bad as it was then. I wonder if it's because I stopped my meds cold-turkey.
Right, the laundry!
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I half wonder something ... I'm having all kinds of memory problems myself and I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the way the depressed mind functions. I don't know your diagnosis, but myself, I have Major Depressive Disorder. So my brain simply isn't as active as a normal brain. Throw in a major episode and I wonder if it flat out
can't get memories stored because part of the brain is pretty much shut down completely.
I don't know if that might be your problem or not, just something I've run into and don't really know the answer to yet.