That is definitely part of depression.

I don't think I am particularly attractive or noteworthy, but I've always felt intelligent, witty sense of humor, good memory (just love to sit around with friends and discuss old Bugs Bunny cartoons... (remember "shh! Leopold! Leopold!" and anyone know what that was a reference to?)

My memory really went south with the depression. Couldn't remember things I was doing while I was in the middle of doing them. Couldn't concentrate. Would watch comedies on TV, where I used to think "I should be a comedy writer" I found myself thinking "I could never write like that, think of a joke like that".

For a period of time I actually "forgot" how to read numbers. That was scary. It wasn't like dyslexia... people would be asking me for account numbers on the phone or giving me telephone numbers and I couldn't be sure I wasn't giving them the right number or writing it down correctly. I was writing proper number symbols but wasn't sure they were for the number they were supposed to represent. It was like that pattern matching part of my brain that worked for numbers just shut off.

Now THAT was scary.

The whole idea of not being "smart" anymore was scary. But it did start to come back, and by now I feel if not all the way there, that at least I will be back there at some point. I catch the Bugs Bunny references that are thrown out when I talk to people, and I think you can tell on the board that my sense of humor has been beginning to come back.

I know it is a scary feeling but it is not permanent. It is a symptom of depression and will pass with the other horrible symptoms once you begin to heal.

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