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eskielover · Aug 12, 2022, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by LiteraryLark

I forget about neuroplasticity.

I always worry about developing dementia. For me, I feel it's inevitable, but I feel like I lose memories as fast as I make them. I'm one of those, "don't ask me about what I did yesterday, because I won't remember.:"

My grandma had alzheimers so I am very aware of how it is. Even my oldest doggie who lived to almost 19 had doggie dementia. What I found most interesting is that I grew up in a stressful family & lived in a stressful marriage. In school & college I had to work harder than everyone else to get the good grades I wanted to have & retention was very poor. After my parents died & I left my bad marriage at 54, my memory, my retention has just continually improved as I am getting older. That was when a lightbulb came on in my mind & I realized just how much (at least for me) stress must have clouded my ability of my brain to function to its fullest capacity. I could never find the right word, my thoughts & therefore my communication was meandering & my mind put so much energy into fighting against the environments I had been living in that it had no ability to retain a whole lot more. My life before I left is like a black hole with only little memories of things here & there. Second half of life is much better than the first now all that stress has been removed