[meccorad]

Has anyone else who's suffered from depression ever had a hard time remembering things? My memory is extremely poor and I can barely remember something older than week, even a day sometimes. I'm only 24! Then suddenly something will remind me of a bad moment and suddenly my head is flooded with terrible memories. They won't stop; they just keep playing over and over again.

Now why is it when I want to remember something I can't, but when I don't want to remember something, it's the only thing playing in my mind?

[Sunna]

I had memory problems and concentration. Of course I am older, so I was joking that it's just early senility, lol!

But the lack of concentration, being way too easily distracted, all that seems to be because I did not have, so to speak, my mind dully engaged. It was like my mind had gone elsewhere (hidden in a closet getting drunk on it's own sorrow) to pay attention to such things piddle things as staying on a task or digging for a memory.
Replaying bad memories, on the other hand, seems to fit with the closet of sorrow thing. I see depression as a mind stuck in telling itself "nothing is worth anything, i am worthless," etc.. Bad memories that reinforce this notion would be just what it wants, and the bugger can't let go of them.

Then again there are bio-chemical changes associated with depression that may explain it a bit differently.

[eskielover]

The use of the omega 3 DHA/EPA works well not only for memory, but the EPA also helps with depression.....& it's good for everything else in the body also......my pdoc suggested it for my Depression because of all the horrible side effects with the normal meds.......along with the lowering of my depression the great side effect was that my memory & thinking became much sharper.....& I'm older.....nice suprise for sure.

[Umbral_Seraph]

My memory is pretty bad too. I have trouble remembering what I had to eat yesterday, and I have actually forgotten what it was I was talking about in the middle of saying it.

[EvilManiac]

Don't worry your not alone. I feel the same way... I'm a college student and I come to class the next day I completely forgot what happened last class... So I know how difficult and frustrating it is.