Well since all of you have problems similar to mine, I am beginning to think it is unlikely that I have early onset dementia. So its the meds or the illness. I have been on a full spectrum of meds. I have had these defecits to some degree through all of this time. However, it can become bad, and it has been this way for a significant period of time now.

Now let me think aloud.

I am on Buprorion, Fluoxetine, Benzotropine, Lamotragine, and Olanzapine. The recent changes for about a month now has been the Fluoxetine and Olanzapine. Before that it was that nasty Depekote. I had to get off Depakote due to balance problems. I remember having bad episodes of cognitive problems like this in the past. So maybe this is not due to any specific meficine?

One variable can be stress. Nowadays I can become stressed out, and then subsequently depressed, over relatively small things. However, this time is about finding a job, which is something more significant. This scares me. Before this it was my daughter getting pregnant under very unfavorable circumstances. I am stressing out about how much money is being spent. Oh yes, both my daughter’s mother and her brother has had their permission to work taken away from them for no apparent reason. So I am concerned about both of them being deported.

So maybe this is more situational than I have originally thought? Perhaps my MI has been changing how I respond to events in my life? Perhaps over time this just has been getting worse for me? I am sure the meds are not helping.