Interesting! Do you use any psychostimulants/meds for your ADHD (I can't see your signature right now)? Do you think they help your working memory, in that you have a more stable set of ideas/memories, more focus?

Anxiolytics/antidepressants might be detrimental a bit, I think: it makes you "float" a bit more, changing your thoughts/memory (but your experience might differ).

Considering your longterm memory, do you think you have easier access to negative/unwelcome/pessimistic thoughts/memories while depressed and likewise for mania (so easier/only access to optimistic memories)?

My working memory was also tested and mine was really bad, too. Antipsychotics have helped most to improve it, I think. But definitely also my general(ly) (improved) stability: it is less windy and floaty in my mind, so my clearly primarily affect-driven memory is more stable so that I can keep track of memories/thoughts/ideas.

I don't have ADHD, so I manage with coffee and (to stabilise more) nicotine/cigarettes.

Supplements have really helped with the residual "floating". I really need them.

My memory is also generally more impaired when depressed, which is (of course) very typical. I blame it on a lack of emotional "sight": emotional blindness in a affect-driven mind. Things have to take the slower, underdeveloped (memory-access-wise) rational route.