[faerie_moon_x]

Okay, this is try number 2 on building this poll.

Please select all the choices that apply to you. You can elaborate in the comments

[venusss]

I have some symptoms, but I call it being clumsy and scatterbrained... and honestly, I think it's there is.

Misplacing keys and cellphones is horribly common in most of the population.

Forgetting to take my supplements is somewhat distressing (and reason I could never take birth control pill cause I'd be preggers in no time), but meh. I write it off to the fact that there's more interesting things to think about...

As for clumsiness... I wish I could say I am adoraklutz, but I am just WTF-she-cannot-walk.

[BipolaRNurse]

Originally Posted by VenusHalley

As for clumsiness... I wish I could say I am adoraklutz, but I am just WTF-she-cannot-walk.

HAHAHA!!! This is me too.....nothin' adorable about someone who does a faceplant in the petunias when she trips over her own feet!

[Confusedinomicon]

I think quality of sleep affects a lot of this.

[BlackPup]

I had lots of symptoms a few years ago with different meds and some severe depression but nothing that can't be explained away as baby brain now!

[Victoria'smom]

It gets better with stability but doesn't go away.

I have some symptoms that are bothering me more than any on the list (but it's a great list you've made there): I sometimes hang on consonants for a few seconds, before I am able to move my tongue and lips to create the next sound. I have very, very bad episodic long-term memory. I remember very little from my childhood (0-18), which is distressing since I'm only 22. Even just a couple of years back and it's very foggy. I know it's not natural to remember a lot from your childhood, but I would expect that a normal person remembers much more. It just feels like there's so much missing. Like my grandfather who died when I was ~15, all I remember of him is the moment when I said goodbye. And I often forget simple words now, more than before, and can't complete sentences because I can't think of a substitute word either.

[Confusedinomicon]

I have your problems, Mandrec! (Not the consonants bit)

Irony is that I'm 23 so we're close in age.

Its annoying when people refer to the past and I don't remember so I make something up. :\

[A Red Panda]

My biggest problem is word-searching: I'll forget an easy word and substitute it either with something that sounds similar (psycho instead of cycle) or something which has a similar use/meaning (window instead of door)

[middlepath]

Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin

My biggest problem is word-searching: I'll forget an easy word and substitute it either with something that sounds similar (psycho instead of cycle) or something which has a similar use/meaning (window instead of door)

me too! Its so frustrating! Or I will get a "word of the week" where i get stuck on a word that continues to appear in conversation. I think to myself, "stop using that word", but somehow it will find itself in my speech pattern again. damn language.

[A Red Panda]

haha I do that too. It's almost always words like "already" or "for sure" or other such things that can be easily tacked on to other sentences!

I am very grateful that children are so forgiving though - they always point out when I say the wrong word, but after this happens enough times during the year the other kids will start responding with "you know what she meant!"

Oh - the other day I went to order boneless wings. I asked for meatless wings and didn't know why everyone including the server was laughing at me! I blushed and was like "what?......did I say something else like meatless?" And then... to all horrors... it was confirmed that yes in fact, I had just ordered meatless chicken wings!

[mimi2112]

As I said in another thread, I have had these issues with and without meds, when my mood has been stable and unstable, when I am not stressed or stressed by my life circumstance. These cognitive issues go back to childhood for me.

This is why I lean toward the belief that severe mental illness is very much a neurological disease process in that the brain malfunctions.... I believe that one day mental illness will not just be diagnosed by behavioral observations from Dr.s but through conclusive and absolute tests like scans etc. which hopefully will CLEARLY point to neurological dysfunction, not just some vague and loose Dx. and symptomatic treatment.

It's not all about "mood" and "emotions" and getting those under control with meds/psychotherapy/supplements. It's not all about sitting for hours and talking about how we feel about our mothers.

Someday soon through science I hope the stigma and ignorance will be taken away.

Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon

Its annoying when people refer to the past and I don't remember so I make something up. :\

That's what I do too, I just say whatever comes to mind. Usually it's at least half a lie. And I'm not doing this consciously, I just don't correct my mistakes.

[faerie_moon_x]

Thanks to everyone for your responses so far.

[ultramar]

Are you doing official research, or is this just for yourself? Because my understanding is that psychological research -with members as subjects- is prohibited on PC.

[~Christina]

Ultra,
Shes just doing a detailed poll .

[faerie_moon_x]

I'm not doing actual research. I'm doing "let's learn about our community, and how we are similar to each other." I think one big thing is we often feel alone. We're the only one in our family who always loses things, causing everyone else to be late, and people get mad and call us "a mess" or "scatter brained" or whatever. But, really, we're not alone. There are a lot of us out there with the same issues.

I feel alone all the time in this area. Having a visual aid to say "Look how many people answer the same one as me!" it just makes me feel like I'm not some alien abandoned on earth.

[pink&grey]

I took the poll, but i'm recently on meds so I can't really answer the stable questions. Barely understanding what stable means at this point.

[Trippin2.0]

I only have issues during a cycle, memory, processing, attention, critical thinking and co-ordination. They're not severe, but bad enough to piss me off and have me write down everything because I'm unable to process normally, not to mention asking "stupid" questions, you know, the ones I do have the answers to, but can't recall...

I especially hate it when I have no idea how to do a task I do everyday with my eyes closed

Uhm so I wasn't sure how to vote, because I have zero issues between cycles, So I'm not "better" when stable, I'm "perfect" ....

If the better option is the one to go with, please let me know and I'll gladly vote

submitted my vote.

embarrasingly ticked quite a few of them- just left a few in critical thinking

My issues just get a little better between episodes (but I'm not so sure, since I don't have a lot of normal periods), and I chose the gets better option. I think I should have gone with the other one. Most of this is just progressing slowly and I believe has been since I was a child. Although it has probably sped up since I got my first hypomania.

[BipolaRNurse]

Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin

My biggest problem is word-searching: I'll forget an easy word and substitute it either with something that sounds similar (psycho instead of cycle) or something which has a similar use/meaning (window instead of door)

AUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! I do that too....thought I was losing my marbles when that first started happening a few years back. Looking at a glass of strawberry soda and saying something like "I want the red" just makes me feel like I'm developing dementia.

[A Red Panda]

Mine's only been around for a few years too - it might have started while I was in university, but I didn't really start to notice it until the year after I graduated. So this is the fourth year of being QUITE aware of it! I keep wondering if there is something seriously wrong with me..... but reading the threads here makes me think it's just this lovely charming disorder showing something new!

[EBD8]

Although my memory is worse than it has ever been, I will have to say that remembering what someone has just told me is the most difficult and causes the most difficult in all my relationships, even though I have told them over and over that I have this problem, they seem to have very little patience with me.

[A Red Panda]

Yeah.. it's really frustrating when you have to ask someone to repeat what they just said. I've had this issue since I was a kid - I definitely went to the hospital a few times for hearing tests, which always came out perfectly! But sometimes I just won't hear (or remember really) what someone just said to me. I'll know they spoke... but no idea what came out of their mouth.