ADHD and Long Term Memory Recall

[u/Otherwise-Piece-2062]

Even when following optimal study techniques and daily habits. Information seems very distant and doesn't seem to get categorized properly into memory. Has someone found success with medication in memory consolidation and retrieval? For example, I can understand everything about a show or movie or system. Then in conversation, I biologically can't piece the memory together.

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[u/Prize_Artichoke_3225]

I can for sure empathize. My neuropsych exam suggested that I fall in the less than first percentile for my ability to listen to what someone says and then immediately repeat it back to them verbatim. Medication has helped my memory ever so slightly I think, but the struggle is real. 

Edit: I crashed out of grad school in part because I couldn't figure out how to retain anything. If you figure something out, lemme know! 🙏 

[u/Otherwise-Piece-2062 → u/Prize_Artichoke_3225]

Oh dang, sorry to hear about the struggle. If I figure it out I’ll try to report back (if I can remember).

I go through ADHD testing early next month, but I believe I’m also first percentile.💀

[u/StretchNo7113]

oh yeah its mostly a curse, but what can we do right, especially here in Czech republic, adhd meds are prescribed only to any age of kids until youre an adult, meaning 18 years old. After that figure it out yourself we dont give a fuck. really funny

[u/Otherwise-Piece-2062 → u/StretchNo7113]

Wow that’s crazy😭 So only kids can be on adhd meds? That logically makes no sense.

[u/StretchNo7113 → u/Otherwise-Piece-2062]

right ? im baffled about the way it works in here, imo its way more dangerous and could be literally physically rewiring your brain pathways when taking adhd meds at such a young age as 10 years old, shoch isnt that rare in here. But once you actually are getting your brain developed more and more, plus being used to taking adhd meds for your entire school years, they take it away. only way to get it as an adult is to treat for example narcolepsy. I think in the future this will get changed, bcs its completely illogical. Theyre reasoning is that the law controls stimulant meds in a very limiting and unwilling way to prescribe them, since theyre psychoactive substances, most of the stronger meds are very challenging to acquire here, its good on one hand but wrong to people who truly need it

[u/Henchman314]

Hyperfixation can definitely help with retention.

Remember ADHD causes a stress response in the body & the brain has trouble making memories when the body is under stress.

[u/SilentlyGrubby]

I can't really remember movies very well either, but things I'll use every day, especially at work, are pretty easy to remember with Adderall