I was taking a full class load at college a few years back. I felt that I had to take notes and study 2-3 harder than my peers in order to keep up. I had to keep a very detailed calendar just to recall where to go from one class to the next, what homework to do, what test to study for, etc. In conversations topics would come up that I should have recalled and it was brand new. This was embarrasing and I learned how to fake it, or at least try to fake it when memory failed. (My much younger classmates must have thought I was senile.)

My pdoc said these were typical ssri side effects. Not good for a student!

Now I am off meds and have been for a few weeks. I have not noticed any better memory, but not been put to the kind of challenge that classwork is. It would be a great benefit to regain better brain functionaltiy.