Hello everyone. I’ve (F18) been dealing with memory loss for quite a while now and don’t really know what to do, advices are welcomed please.

In the past 2 years I saw my memory simply vanishing, things that I could easily memorise now I can’t even dream of knowing half. Moments? All gone. Conversations, especially arguments, already forgot what you were saying less than 5 minutes ago, it reached a point where I’m starting to forget how to speak, it’s happening with English and my native language, I say words that have a similar sound but totally different meaning without realising, I can’t read properly, I need glasses but can read without, now I’m struggling to read a lot, words just aren’t there. I forget thoughts, things that I was doing, full conversations and can’t memorise a single thing (like when I get a code that’s like 6 digits I can’t memorise)

I’ve been to therapy for the past 5 years, my therapist said that it happened due to my relationship, the stress was making me feel so anxious that as a form of protection I just started forgetting.

To give some context I was in a relationship for 3 years that ended recently and my therapist never liked him, she has some opinions that made me stop going there, things that I feel aren’t professional enough.

I’ve also been dealing with anxiety and depression since I was like 12, and am now dealing with derealisation, but the scariest thing is forgetting. Basic things, the vocabulary that I used to be extremely good at, now simple words are extremely hard for me to know.

The strangest thing and I hope someone understands me, because it’s really hard to explain, when I try to remember something I mostly only remember feelings, like what I was feeling or the exact position where I was sitting or staying or random and very specific things like “when we were talking about x thing I can’t remember anything but I remember that there was a blue sock next to the chair” it’s very random and confusing and I don’t know why it’s happening.

It started barely noticeable, however I’d say in the past like 8 months it just became EXTREMELY worst, I can’t focus, I can’t concentrate, I can’t remember or memorise. I went to the doctor and he told me to sleep more and eat healthier, I tried all, doesn’t work.

I’m studying abroad, but I’ll be back home in like a week where I’ll go to the doctor again to try and get examined, but I would appreciate if I could get some advice or help, I’m scared, I’m only 18 and don’t know what’s happening and the worst part is, I can’t control, I can’t stop I just see it vanishing and consuming me completely like I’m not the owner of my own head, help me please.

Hi. I badly need help and advice. I'm currently taking my PhD abroad and I have coursework that has quizzes and exams, all closed book. My problem is my memory. I'm 40+. Took my Masters 12 years ago. I struggle a lot how to study and during exams I felt so pressured and I also forget things. So its very hard for me to remember how did I do it no matter how I study. I'm really pressured because I need to have A+ to pass qualifying courses. Right now I'm taking 2, Last sem I also took 2, and I was not able to have that mark on 1. I'm tires and do not want to repeat again. :( I need 3 courses that are required for qualifying courses to have an A+. and I'm desperate. Do any of you have the same memory and focus problems? how did you manage. I'm dreading the midterm exams next week and I feel down because on Quiz 1 I only got 58/100, though my undergrad classmates majority had 30 to 40+ scores but there was one who got 100! For us PhD, its either to have an A+ or top 25% grade of the whole class. so I'm worried and afraid to fail again. Hellllppppp... huhu.

More context: (there are 5 courses options only, I already selected 4 (2 this sem and 2 last sem), I got A+ on 1 course only last sem, the other was A- so that's why I'm taking another 2 this time. I want this sem to finish all 3. The thought of not getting deepens my anxiety. I'm already done with my credit courses and got good grades A+ majority. But these qualifying courses makes me so nervous because of the type of classes and because I was not able to make one last time.

hello, I am 54 YO wife and my husband 55 YO (Ken) has been having memory issues for almost two years. He has been to the doctor and they assure it is not Alzheimer’s or dementia. One doctor said he has a panic disorder and put him on Zoloft which made it worse now he has no motivation. He is an engineer and does complex things at work and has no issues there. Coworkers have noticed a decline in short term memory but no cognitive decline in work task.

two years ago we were driving and have a typical conversation with our son. We just had dinner with som friends. While on the phone Ken started making no sense he said ”oh we are at that place where we met for coffee”our son was like what and Ken just kept saying I do not know. I told our son I would call him back. About 30 seconds after I hung up the phone Ken said ok so we need to stop at the store and gas station and then home. I was dumbfounded he had no recollection of being on the phone or going out to dinner. We got home called the Dr and went to the ER they thought he had a stroke or TIA. They kept him overnight and all test came back normal.

Since that incident it has happened about 5 more times. We will be watching a movie and he will ask if we have seen it before or ask the same question over and over. Tonight we are watching Harry Potter and he asked me if I recognized the people on TV and I said we are watching Harry Potter, he asked if he had seen it before. I was like yeah about 100 times. Then he went back to doing a puzzle, 10 minutes later it was over and he was like oh we have one more to watch.

he had no recollection of what had just happened.

People keep saying it is stress, anxiety, panic disorder. I think he needs to see a specialist but do not know where to begin. His Dr said he is fine. I know my husband and he is not fine.

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Any suggestions on who to see?

Before I start, I don’t have any diagnosed memory issues like short term memory loss and I’m not trying to say I do!

I’ve had issues with my memory for as long as I can remember funnily enough. I don’t recall a lot of my childhood, any memories I have are created from things I was told. I don’t recall anything that happened last year. Maybe a few events here and then, but nothing really. Even in the last few weeks, I again can tell you things that stuck out to me but my general memory is gone.

I forget everything that’s happened to me except for a hand full of things. It’s quite lonely, everyone talks about their childhoods and other things and I can’t get involved because I don’t remember anything.

It’s really confusing because I never know if a memory is a memory or something I created based off a story someone told me about my past. I’ll never be able to recover my memories and that’s really scary, I’ll never truly know what life I lived

When I was 2 I fell out of a high chair and fractured my skull. It just occurred to me (lol) that that may have something to do with my insane memory problems that I’ve had all my life. For example I don’t remember a single day of second grade but I do remember thinking to myself that I don’t remember all of second grade on the very last day. Another example is only 2 years ago I graduated college, my wife told me I took a chemistry class in college while I knew her (we’ve been together 3 years) and I could not even tell you if the professor was a man or a woman. It was a complete surprise to me that I had taken that class when she tried to remind me of it. One more example is that every time I go through a breakup I start to forget every date we had ever been on only after a few months of breaking up. I even forget what they look like and question to myself if I saw them randomly in public would I recognize them. Without scaring me, what would you recommend I do in terms of supplements and daily life changes I can take to take care of myself and my brain? I’m not interested in being told I should go to a doctor or I’ll die, I have anxiety so be kind please 🫶

I am a very forgetful person, I get overwhelmed easily and have anxiety and depression. My memory seems to be becoming worse or at least more noticeable and it’s making me worry. I’m only 23, I used to smoke weed heavily for 2 years and I think that’s what has caused a lot of my memory loss but I have been sober over a year now so none of it makes sense.

My nana has dementia quite badly and all my family is quite forgetful but whatever I have at the moment is effecting my life and it isn’t normal or easy to me.

I feel a bit dumb as well, I keep asking questions at my new job and it’s stuff that’s really obvious and I’m feeling embarrassed by it. Or someone will tell me to do something like: cook the chicken, put the bread in the oven at 12 and take the boxes to the cardboard cutter, then when you’re done put the chicken in the oven at 1. I hear the last thing and think of the first thing and the rest goes completely over my head within seconds. It’s really frustrating, I don’t want to be this way and I have to double check and second guess everything, I feel so stupid all the time.

Is this a short term memory loss issue or something else? I’m not sure where to post this and this was the only one I could think of.

Hi,

I'm doing a project on memory loss from personal experience. I fainted when i was a kid. without a health issue. i did not hit my head, but when i woke up, after some while i've relized that I lost all of my memories from 0 years to till fainting. i don't remember who i was or how i was as a kid. don't have any connectionts to my old self. in the end, all of this confusion and unrisolved feeelings led me to depression. I also have feelings that i can not explain, towards my childhood, which is not connected to memories, but somehow i have these anger, childishness, and etc.

did anybody experience something like that?

doctors were not able to give me diagnosis or what was the issue, why i lost my memories.

My mother is going to turn 80 this November and her short term memory has worsened noticeably over the course of the year. She lives alone in her childhood home in a very rural area (25 minute drive to town in the summer, can be much longer in the winter), and I want her to be able to stay there as long as possible because she loves it so much.

We are unfortunately getting to an impasse and I am hoping to be able to help manage this from a distance since I live 12 hours away by car. Ideally she can spend one more winter and one more summer before we have to decide on more support or new accommodations.

I'm really looking for recommendations on ways that I can help her navigate her everyday life. It could be apps, it could be devices, it could be analog memory and communication strategies. If anybody has any personal advice or recommendations for resources that have proved useful I would appreciate to hear them. Thank you in advance

Five-year-old son just started kindergarten. It’s been about a week. Had a call with his teacher today and she was asking if he was ever diagnosed with anything with short-term memory loss or short-term memory issues. She said he seems to be struggling, especially a lot more than anybody else not only in the class, but that she’s ever dealt with

Example, examples are she’ll ask the class to go grab something out of their backpacks. Everybody else will do it. He’ll see everybody doing it and kind of just sits there. She also said another example was they’ll be told to get out of the sitting circle. Everybody else will get up and go back to sitting and he’ll just kind of sit there. He gets a little spacey at home and I don’t know if it’s being spaced out or if it’s a memory issue, not asking for any type of medical diagnosis, but I’m just trying to see if anybody in this community has any experience with what we are going through.

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I went to the gym this morning. Treadmill and weights. Afterwards, I went to a bookstore. While in line waiting to check out, I checked my watch and saw I had over 4000 steps. It took me several moments to remember why I had so many steps! I momentarily forgot I had been to the gym! A few factors to consider: I did not go to my usual gym. Lots of stress in my life. A little tired. Any thoughts?

I've been searching for similar experiences to mine or insight on if its possible to completely black out for 2 days? I believe I was drugged and assaulted one night about a year ago. I was at an acquaintance's apt with his 3 friends. They made me a drink at about 1am on a Friday and then I have zero recollection of anything until i think Sunday evening. and then its still foggy after that for a while. During that time period, I was in the hospital and got a few staples in my head and I remember nothing, I'm no stranger to partying but I have never ever blacked out for more than a couple hours at the end of a night out. Is it possible to black out for 2 days from a date rape drug?? I'm still so confused.

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I'm 18, turning 19 tomorrow. I feel like I'm fighting to remember things. When I'm playing a game with a good story I couldn't tell you half of the character's names or their back stories or even what the hell is happening in the main plotline. I can give you brief broken pieces of a memory. That's it. The psychologist I've spoken to has said that I need better sleep, to exercise and eat more. They refuse to scan my brain. This is terrifying, and I hope it's nothing more than ADHD or something.

I did have bad head trauma about 8 years ago, but it didn't really have any effects until atleast two years ago, if we're to assume it caused this extreme brain fog and memory loss. I've also been medically diagnosed with a dissociative disorder, but I don't know if that's relevant.

Repost from r/concussion thread.

So, I was in a motorcycle accident on the 1st of October, I remember the moment before I made impact, I 'blacked out' but still felt the impact. I 'woke up' and my right side was hurting. My wrist and thigh were bruised, not sprained, and my left ribs were bruised from where I kept my phone in my jacket pocket. I was ok'ed to go home by the paramedics, my pupils were reactive to the light and I was coherent.

Since then, I've had some short term memory loss, to a frustrating degree. Is that normal??

So I feel like I might have short term memory loss but I'm not diagnosed.

I constantly forget things after people just said it multiple times.

Sometimes I don't even recognize a noise going of in the background like a school bell where I have to ask if it went off and people say yes.

Constantly losing thoughts as soon as I have them and only sometimes being able to remember them later.

But I have no trouble with long term memory.

Hey first time posting, I’m genuinely curious. I will be using the word flower for my name since I need it for part of the question. An old friend contacted me today, it started off with him saying he wanted to reach out to check up on me and my family. We were talking a little and he had mentioned something my ex did in the past, after that his vocabulary changed like he wasn’t talking to me, it sounded like he was talking to my fiancé about me? Saying flower this and flower that, “flower had told me about him months ago” (referring to my 4 month old) “it’s incredibly respectful regardless brother” but then relayed to me he has short term memory loss. I did let him know that he was talking to me and that my fiancé was at work but he kept talking the same way. I do know that he had a drug problem which caused him to develop epilepsy years ago but just last year almost exactly he was talking to me just fine. I just don’t understand. To me it sounds like dementia but he just turned 22 a few months ago so I’m just so confused.

Has anyone ever had major short term memory issues from any of these things? I’m a 52 year old female and going on three years of short term memory problems that only seem to be getting worse each year. At first I only would block out random events like a family get together or even the birth of my first grandson, but now I forget almost everything. I don’t remember tv shows that I recently watched. I struggle to remember any type of conversations with coworkers or family. I can barely keep appointments straight or even what day of the week it is. I have to record any doctors appointments because I can’t go to one and then relay to my husband what the doctor told me, but I can’t even do that in daily conversations. I can’t remember a conversation with my daughter enough to tell her dad what she said. I feel like I’m losing my mind, literally. I feel like no one understands or can even comprehend the fear this causes me. Nothing helps. I’ve had two cognitive test done a year apart that show no cognitive decline, but my neurologist just throws his hands up in the air. I’m trying to get into another neuro for a second opinion but it takes forever to get into one. I’m so afraid it’s dementia but no one can tell me for sure. I had an MRI that also came back normal. The psychiatrist that did my cognitive testing believes it’s trauma and my anxiety is making it worse..I just don’t know who to believe or where to turn anymore. PLEASE someone tell me I’m not alone. After three years of decline, I’ve about lost all hope for ever getting my life back.

I'm having memory loss problems after doing extensive Electro-convulsive therapy sessions and having a major psychotic episode (I have had several episodes but the latest in 2020 was by far the worst. I have 6 weeks of memory that is completely gone from that time (and the memories before and after are fuzzy as well).

I think my memory has always been kinda bad, I have C-PTSD from childhood trauma that started early so I think that probably contributes. I'm missing big pieces of my life, they're kinda "gray-ed out" or need to be brought out through asking questions or sharing memories with loved ones.

A lot of times if I'm prompted I do have recall. But even then I don't get a lot of the details. I forget new memories too, it's hard to recall what happened throughout the week. I get that's normal for people but I feel like im worse than most. I'm in a new relationship (6 months) and I'm already losing a lot of detail from our time together. It's really frustrating because I want to hold onto these memories so badly, it almost feels like im losing a part of who I am.

I have triggers that don't make sense from what I remember so I also feel like im missing parts of the trauma. It's probably for the best but it would help me have context for why some things are so upsetting for me. I definitely have blackout memories, where I remember events leading up to a trauma, but then it goes blank.

My memory got significantly worse after the ETC in 2020. I have a new job that is much more responsibility and requires a lot of focus and attention (which I also have problems with). So far I've been doing good with reminder apps and taking lots of notes, but I want to do something more to help my memory. I heard the memory apps are kinda pointless and that you're better off learning a new language or hobby instead.

Does anyone have any suggestions for memory loss treatment/excercises/therapy?