Some have already posted about memory and medicines, but what about mania?

When I am manic, I am having a million thoughts and actions. When I come out of mania, I have a hard times remembering things.

Anyone else?

[palerefraction]

absolutely!

Yes, I definitely relate.

[lunaticfringe]

Yes...and I find that some things slowly come back to me like embarrassing things I've done etc. Makes the effects of mania pretty long-lasting and hard to get over.

When I am manic, I truly don't process things in the same way. Glad to hear other feel the same.

[cosmic.yiana]

I'm definitely that way.

[BipolaRNurse]

Yep, I think it's pretty common. I've found that I have manic blackouts in much the same way as I used to have alcoholic blackouts in my drinking days. There are times I have to rely on someone else's recollection of events, which I think sometimes leads them to take advantage of me. But what can I do but believe them when I don't remember?

Never really thought about until recently. But coming out of this last episode, I realized that my memory isn't as sharp.

[RisuNeko]

My memory goes out when the sleep deprivation hits an ultra extreme or the psychosis starts creeping in. I only have glimpses of memory of my worst manic episode.

[Crazy Hitch]

My personal experience with Mania is this:

It makes me appear 50 Shades of Stupidity

Because.

Try reading a 1000 page Novel.

In 3 minutes.

And write a 5 page report in 10 minutes.

Please encapsulate all the main points and your thorough understanding of this novel including characters, plot and genre

IMPOSSIBLE

My thoughts fly so fast they go *SPLAT* when I try make sense of much.

So I guess ...... does it interfere with my memory .......

No.

I have a pretty good memory.

IF I have interpreted the information correctly in the first place.

BUT.

I'm usually unable to interpret a hell of alot.

So what I don't interpret.

I simply would never know thus never remember.

What was the question of the original poster again ......

[boydisappearing]

I for sure experience memory loss, in both extremes, mania and depression.

I accused my mom and sister of not coming to see me in the hospital once. Turns out they had come twice and once had permission to take me out for dinner, and I forgot all of it.

[honeybunchesofoats]

I tell huge lies when I'm manic, and then when I come out I don't even remember what I said. It's the worst.

[wiretwister]

my pdoc said I was manic when ip,, and I have no memory of the entire week....

Thanks for the replies. Glad to hear it isn't just me.

[Smellyfinger]

And here I was thinking that it was just me. I experience this quite frequently. I can have entire conversations with people that I won't remember or barely recall the next day.

My mom will often bring up things I've said and it always catches me off guard because I don't remember any of it.

I can barely recall what I did when I last had my manic episode. All I remember is a few people telling me I'm nuts. Man I embarrassed myself with that one. Thats probably why I don't remember it well.

Maybe the disease has a built in memory loss, so we dont get embarrassed!