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Old Jan 08, 2016, 02:46 PM
finding_my_way finding_my_way is offline
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Originally Posted by peaches100 View Post
Hi Findingmyway,

Wow, that must have been scary to find out you took an exam you didn't remember taking, and other things like that! How have you learned to cope with your day to day memory problems? Any tips you could share?

Peaches
it's only kind of worrisome for me and less of a huge problem. my memory issues have been worse lately due to dissociation, panic, etc. the dissociation throws me into an internal type of vortex filled with confusion and things i don't really know...while at the same time reality kind of being in front of me but very disconnected/unclear at the same time.

i have a daily schedule and don't leave the house daily, so that helps a lot. i know that nothing goes on, i don't leave the house, etc. or have issues like that when dissociated, so it's why i'm not that concerned. i just have days more or less disappear lately but know nothing weird happened during them.

i don't really have tips because i don't fully realize i am missing days until a while after. during dissociation, or just prior sometimes, i can realize it is going to happen, but it just kind of disappears after.

i just cannot keep track of things...which would only be more an issue if i had to work outside the house daily or have other commitments (which is hard due to anxiety which can cause stress which can cause more dissociation). i pretty much check daily to see what the day and date is..beyond that, it just is what it is, i guess.

so, it's more just overall confusion, not keeping remembering when i had a conversation with someone, if it was yesterday or a week ago, etc. and things like that.