Dealing with "losing" time

Hi all,

One thing that I've noticed recently is that I seem to just...forget how time has progressed. Not just surprise at what the time is, but also not being able to remember if I ever did something, thinking that I must have done it but never did, things like that. For instance, I currently can't remember at all if I've taken any paracetamol this morning. I don't think I have but part of me is telling me that I did and I don't fancy risking it.

I'd just put it down to some combination of being anxious about things and thus distracted but also some of my anxieties being put down as "memories" and confusing things.

Has anyone dealt with this and does anyone have any suggestions for coping with it?

If you still have the pain then I would not worry about taking more paracetamol, especially if you think 4+ hours have passed?

I'd make a schedule of what I want to do in a day when I wake, a list, and check things off and/or get in the habit of recording when you take your paracetamol, setting an alarm to take it, whatever. If I am not doing something "planned", then there is no structure to my time and no reason for it to be remembered differently from my other, anxious thoughts. My husband, for example, cannot remember what he has eaten because he is so intent on his work, much more interested in what he is doing; it works for you and me the other way I think? We're not intent enough? Make a list when you get up of 5 things you want to do that day including taking your paracetamol?

I always struggle with plans because they have a habit of going to pot, but I have been trying. I'd say that yeah, at the minute, it's because I'm distracted from everything by the anxiety so I can't be intent on other stuff. I'm only taking the paracetamol because I've caught a stinking cold, I'm pretty good at remembering to take my normal meds, so it's a case of remembering if I did in fact ever take any paracetamol or merely thought about it.

Hi I am sorry to hear this...maybe it is anxiety.. I used to and still struggle with ocd looking at the time or trying to beat or race time constantly looking at my watch.. now I don't wear a watch and I try not to look at a clock.. it will drive me crazy thinking how much more time do I have to do .... or how many more hours of sleep do I have before the alarm goes off! And hard to make plans because there's something always going on in the life of someone with tons of appointments.. that I usually forget..