Hey guys, I'm BP2 and I just wanted to ask how common memory difficulties are with this disorder.

My memory doesn't necessarily just fail me when I have a racey mind when manic for example, but even when I'm stable. It interferes with daily life (even more so when I started quetiapine (seroquel)) and I try to make the best of what I have to deal with, but it seems stress triggers it even more.

Examples are forgetting where I am going on a car journey, memory blanks where I can't remember names, dates, the year we are in. I lose my car keys almost every time I get out of the car (before I have left the car!!). I know that forgetfulness is part and part with normal brains, but I'm not on about little glitches I'm talking about something that affects me 24/7 and is making my life extremely difficult. I have post it notes everywhere, especially at work, I have to make a list every morning of thins to do or else I will wonder around aimlessly not knowing that I had planned for the day. The majority of conversations it have with people I forget, and I have to explain myself to people when they get offended when I have no idea what we have talked about for the past hour. It's not that I don't listen, I'm a great listener, it's just like my brain can't seem to retain information.

Are you guys the same or is it something that I'm going to have to take up seriously with my doctor?

Megan x

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