[happysobercrafter]

This concerns me; for example I posted on the Good Morning threads a "Happy Sunday" image, but when I woke up this morning, I thought today was Sunday.

I have done this for a number of years now, but it is concerning me.

I hate losing track of days, especially when you're convinced it's a certain day for hours, and then the radio or tv tries to convince you otherwise (huge shock to the system when you eventually find out)

I think part of my problem is that every day I do so little anyway, so it's just easy to get my days confused

something that always haunts me is the time of year.

I think about it every day, it's june 2019, it's july 2019, I just don't remember it ever being 2018. it's scary

I know what you mean by time going by so fast when my days are slower. Time goes so fast, it is easy to loose track of the day of the week. One way to avoid that is by doing a morning, afternoon or evening ritual and include the date in that ritual. This could be anything such as a daily mantra, exercise or drawing and meditate on your calendar day at this time. An activity like this was suggested to me a few years ago. I bought colorful markers and I set aside 10 mins for a mantra and a small color study on an index card as often as possible. I've swapped out paper for a white board, but I intent to switch back at next opportunity. Buying books as they are released helps. Also, paying bills helps to remind me of the date. But thank goodness for auto pay, or I might loose my cool and forget to pay on-time.

[happysobercrafter]

I thank both of you for your feedback!!

@ragingvortex

I hear you; it is scary!

@AB2371

Honeybunny, I already do that. I post on the Good Morning threads every day plus I started posting them with the name of the day on it. Also, I post daily gratitude on my blog and have been for years.

[Skeezyks]

My wife & I are both retired. So one day is pretty-much the same as all the others. For some reason I'm pretty good at remembering what day it is (& also what's on TV that we typically watch... if anything.) But my wife in particular (& me sometimes too) frequently thinks it's some other day than the one it actually is. When one doesn't have a whole lot going on from one day to the next, I think it's easy to lose track.

Originally Posted by AB2371

I know what you mean by time going by so fast when my days are slower. Time goes so fast, it is easy to loose track of the day of the week. One way to avoid that is by doing a morning, afternoon or evening ritual and include the date in that ritual. This could be anything such as a daily mantra, exercise or drawing and meditate on your calendar day at this time. An activity like this was suggested to me a few years ago. I bought colorful markers and I set aside 10 mins for a mantra and a small color study on an index card as often as possible. I've swapped out paper for a white board, but I intent to switch back at next opportunity. Buying books as they are released helps. Also, paying bills helps to remind me of the date. But thank goodness for auto pay, or I might loose my cool and forget to pay on-time.

rooteen is good.

though I should probably do a bit more of it throughout the day

I eat at a certain time, do my alexa quiz at a certain time (usually the morning), and set aside a few hours in the afternoon to catch up with yesterday's recorded tv programmes

I think however I need more rooteen. so much blank space

something i've started doing is listening to my music an hour or so before dinner

it helps...

Yes, rooteen is good Summer is almost over and I have been able to motivate myself to plan for a new Fall schedule. Hopefully, my plans remain stable enough to hope for a similar schedule next year.

Alas, a daily routine is all I can hope for - one that doesn't change too much with the tides.

[*Beth*]

As far as scheduled appointments I'm always an "early" person. You know...arrive 15 minutes prior to my appt. time.

I have an occasional incident in which I lose periods of time; I guess it might be called a "fugue state." For example, 2 weeks ago after my pdoc appointment I was supposed to go to the pharmacy. I called my pdoc the next day, told her we'd forgotten to refill 2 scripts. She told me she had sent them over by computer, and that I should have gone to the pharmacy. I was a bit put off, thinking she was being curt.

I looked in my cupboard and what do you know, there were the 2 bottles of medicine. Apparently, I had gone to the pharmacy, because there was the evidence, right in my cupboard.

I experienced a degree of fear as I struggled to recall the pharmacy trip. But it was all a blank, a black void of 90 minutes. I had no memory of driving, where I parked, which door I used to enter the pharmacy, interaction with employees...nothing.



My pdoc and my therapist were quite concerned because of the lapse in time. It did (does) scare me; that said, the "pharmacy incident" is not the only one of it's type that I've had in my lifetime - not by a long shot.

Another "lapse" I experience is (for example) right here on PC. I'll read a post/thread and give a like, hug, and reply. I'm a careful listener and a careful reader. Well, darned if I won't go right back the next day, read the same thread, go to like, hug, and post - only to see my name and realize that I've already done it. Not only that, but I guess I'm consistent, LOL - whatever I almost post is always just what I had already posted, but entirely blanked out.

Anyway, those are a couple of examples of recent time or memory losses. HappyCrafter, why do you ask...if you are okay with sharing, what is it you're afraid of?

[happysobercrafter]

I think mine is connected to the amnesia from my childhood and so much emotional stress on my brain. If my brain doesn't work well, I can't work well.

[Hummingbird1950]

Me too Beth, about responding to posts. If I go back and read what I wrote I say to myself alot of the time "did I really write that?". It's not that it's not true, it's just that I don't remember writing that. And I've had other blackouts too just like you, out in public. I can never figure out my triggers.

People tell me places I have been or people will come up to me in a store and start talking to me as if we were old friends and I don't have a clue who they are.


Birdie

Originally Posted by BethRags

As far as scheduled appointments I'm always an "early" person. You know...arrive 15 minutes prior to my appt. time.

I have an occasional incident in which I lose periods of time; I guess it might be called a "fugue state." For example, 2 weeks ago after my pdoc appointment I was supposed to go to the pharmacy. I called my pdoc the next day, told her we'd forgotten to refill 2 scripts. She told me she had sent them over by computer, and that I should have gone to the pharmacy. I was a bit put off, thinking she was being curt.

I looked in my cupboard and what do you know, there were the 2 bottles of medicine. Apparently, I had gone to the pharmacy, because there was the evidence, right in my cupboard.

I experienced a degree of fear as I struggled to recall the pharmacy trip. But it was all a blank, a black void of 90 minutes. I had no memory of driving, where I parked, which door I used to enter the pharmacy, interaction with employees...nothing.



My pdoc and my therapist were quite concerned because of the lapse in time. It did (does) scare me; that said, the "pharmacy incident" is not the only one of it's type that I've had in my lifetime - not by a long shot.

Another "lapse" I experience is (for example) right here on PC. I'll read a post/thread and give a like, hug, and reply. I'm a careful listener and a careful reader. Well, darned if I won't go right back the next day, read the same thread, go to like, hug, and post - only to see my name and realize that I've already done it. Not only that, but I guess I'm consistent, LOL - whatever I almost post is always just what I had already posted, but entirely blanked out.

Anyway, those are a couple of examples of recent time or memory losses. HappyCrafter, why do you ask...if you are okay with sharing, what is it you're afraid of?

[Hummingbird1950]

Yes, and all of a sudden I'm 68 years old and don't remember the last 10 years, or how did I get to be this old, what am I missing? It's startling, so I understand what you are talking about.

Birdie

Originally Posted by raging vortex

something that always haunts me is the time of year.

I think about it every day, it's june 2019, it's july 2019, I just don't remember it ever being 2018. it's scary

[-jimi-]

Week after week my friend thinks Saturday comes after Thursday. She works irregular shifts so she has nothing to lean on.

Me, I have to actively look at a calendar to even know what month it is. Time is very, very confusing to me. And when I finally feel I have a grip, I lose or gain days.

I knew better in the past but I think it was cuz school required it. Also in my country, every school day is different, with different time for breaks, different times for starting and leaving. So that helped. With nothing to latch onto, I'm so lost.

[*Beth*]

Originally Posted by HappyCrafter

I think mine is connected to the amnesia from my childhood and so much emotional stress on my brain. If my brain doesn't work well, I can't work well.

Yep. Me, too.

[Werewoman]

It happens more than I care to admit. One time that sticks out in my mind is that I showered, got myself ready, drove myself to work and suddenly became aware after I had been there for over 2 hours that I was even there. Apparently I functioned just fine but I don't remember driving to work and when I took my lunch break I discovered I had parked my van in the wrong place.
Since then I lose a few hours here and there. I've rather gotten used to it. It used to scare me though. Now I just get annoyed.

Originally Posted by HappyCrafter

This concerns me; for example I posted on the Good Morning threads a "Happy Sunday" image, but when I woke up this morning, I thought today was Sunday.
I have done this for a number of years now, but it is concerning me.

Are you on meds? I once was on an SSRI and it made me struggle with memory.

[happysobercrafter]

I am on Synthroid and Elavil and have been for years. That's a great question though.

[WishfulThinker66]

This used to happen to me for years before I was diagnosed with Bipolar and A-Typical Depression. I really haven't had an issue for years - since I have medicated.

All the time. ADD is partly to blame perhaps. Somewhat unstructured existence has its influence as well. Rarely off more than 2 days though. I'm waiting for the 'duh' that getting entire months wrong will bring. Whattaya mean it's Hallowe'en? What am I gonna do with this tree I just cut!?

Checking in again with my time-lapse progress. Not that I loose time… or track time very well, but I definitely have trouble with timing. Other than the time moving too slow when I have have too much going on and almost disappearing when I have nothing going on, I am working on starting up on things I have been putting off for a long time. I am working on myself and I am working on re-building my interests. My mind is not working right, I guess what I mean is, on Tuesday I mentally prepare for my Saturday evening which feels like a Sunday event that I have to attend on Wednesday. But Wednesday's event is actually on Sunday and I was not prepare for any it or I don't know how to prepare for it. As frequently as I decide on a plan, something happens and I need to change my plan and I cannot be always prepared for plans changing all the time. That kind of instability is mentally draining. I'd prefer non-sense to such fuss.

[zippity-dooda]

i lost reality. i was following my nose around. where ever my nose pointed thats where i went. i did'nt care what wAs going on over here or over there. just what was going on in front of my nose. am i expected to be self sufficient. where does it say that anyway ?. does anybody feel like i did ?

[eskielover]

I lost date & day of the week.....then my phone calendar showed that I had missed my appointment with my T.....by 1 hour when I finally noticed it. Ugh, my problem is more that I get involved in projects around my farm or care for my animals & I finally get into a routine & when something else comes up after a break.....my mind doesn't reprogram it in easy & one day is like the next

Originally Posted by eskielover

I finally get into a routine & when something else comes up after a break.....my mind doesn't reprogram it in easy & one day is like the next

Yeah, this is my everyday. I guess I should get used to things being this way. some people do well living in limbo, life is almost easier for them to live that way. I admire those qualities.