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Aug 21, 2019, 06:22 PM
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Member Since: May 2011
Location: Washington DC area
Posts: 219
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Me too Beth, about responding to posts. If I go back and read what I wrote I say to myself alot of the time "did I really write that?". It's not that it's not true, it's just that I don't remember writing that. And I've had other blackouts too just like you, out in public. I can never figure out my triggers.
People tell me places I have been or people will come up to me in a store and start talking to me as if we were old friends and I don't have a clue who they are.
Birdie
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Originally Posted by BethRags
As far as scheduled appointments I'm always an "early" person. You know...arrive 15 minutes prior to my appt. time.
I have an occasional incident in which I lose periods of time; I guess it might be called a "fugue state." For example, 2 weeks ago after my pdoc appointment I was supposed to go to the pharmacy. I called my pdoc the next day, told her we'd forgotten to refill 2 scripts. She told me she had sent them over by computer, and that I should have gone to the pharmacy. I was a bit put off, thinking she was being curt.
I looked in my cupboard and what do you know, there were the 2 bottles of medicine. Apparently, I had gone to the pharmacy, because there was the evidence, right in my cupboard.
I experienced a degree of fear as I struggled to recall the pharmacy trip. But it was all a blank, a black void of 90 minutes. I had no memory of driving, where I parked, which door I used to enter the pharmacy, interaction with employees...nothing.
My pdoc and my therapist were quite concerned because of the lapse in time. It did (does) scare me; that said, the "pharmacy incident" is not the only one of it's type that I've had in my lifetime - not by a long shot.
Another "lapse" I experience is (for example) right here on PC. I'll read a post/thread and give a like, hug, and reply. I'm a careful listener and a careful reader. Well, darned if I won't go right back the next day, read the same thread, go to like, hug, and post - only to see my name and realize that I've already done it. Not only that, but I guess I'm consistent, LOL - whatever I almost post is always just what I had already posted, but entirely blanked out.
Anyway, those are a couple of examples of recent time or memory losses. HappyCrafter, why do you ask...if you are okay with sharing, what is it you're afraid of?
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