Comments on: Losing My Mind, or at Least My Short Term Memory http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/ Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-15613 Steve Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:23:53 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-15613 I started to lose my ST memory recently, and I am only 28. I am not sure what happen. I started to lose my ST memory recently, and I am only 28. I am not sure what happen.

]]> By: Conor http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-7601 Conor Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:17:18 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-7601 For me im worse off than all of you. I am 15 years old and my short term memory is GONE! well and truely gone. It may be because of my problem with alcohol, for the past 7 months i have been drinking pretty much every day. On average i would drink 6-7 pints of Stella Artois down the local seeing as they all thought i was 18(No complaining from me). Then maybe there would be once or twice a week where i wouldnt drink.I used to drink every friday and saturday night, but that would only be like 7 cans of Carlsberg Export. Yet Now it has got so bad i walk downstairs to get a drink and come back up with a pizza... It really is starting to get to me a bit now. My long term memory is fine. Just my short term is in pieces. For me im worse off than all of you.
I am 15 years old and my short term memory is GONE!
well and truely gone. It may be because of my problem with alcohol, for the past 7 months i have been drinking pretty much every day. On average i would drink 6-7 pints of Stella Artois down the local seeing as they all thought i was 18(No complaining from me). Then maybe there would be once or twice a week where i wouldnt drink.I used to drink every friday and saturday night, but that would only be like 7 cans of Carlsberg Export. Yet Now it has got so bad i walk downstairs to get a drink and come back up with a pizza… It really is starting to get to me a bit now. My long term memory is fine. Just my short term is in pieces.

]]> By: Jill http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-153 Jill Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:04:22 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-153 I wish my kids would laugh at me!! Instead I get that "eyes raised skywards" look....along with something muttered under their breath! Well heck how can I be to blame when I have a hubby 4 kids and 3 labradors too, remember! So what if my daughter gets called by the dogs name (ok well she may get called by everything until I eventually stop and ask her "who are you again ?"), I can't help the hormonal rush that seems to appear out of blue and carries off any short term memory that may have been lingering just for a while. Now, hot flushes (or flashes as you may call them)..Nope none of those.....hot flushes from the sheer embarrassment of turning up somewhere and having no idea why I am there! The amount of times I have returned from shopping with a load of tosh simply because I could not face walking out with nothing, having got there and realised I simply could not fathom why I had made the trip in the first place. Supper in our house can be very interesting sometimes........ The really frustrating thing though is that I always remember that my husband has forgotten...if you get my drift! I may tell him 3 zillion times I am going such and such a place...only to have him tell me indignantly just as I am going out the door "well nobody told me you were going"! So what is that all about? If I could forget that I had told him our lives would be a lot more harmonious I am sure! Right I have to drop my youngest off at the school disco in 10 mins...please pray that i will remember to collect him again in 2 hours ! I wish my kids would laugh at me!! Instead I get that “eyes raised skywards” look….along with something muttered under their breath! Well heck how can I be to blame when I have a hubby 4 kids and 3 labradors too, remember! So what if my daughter gets called by the dogs name (ok well she may get called by everything until I eventually stop and ask her “who are you again ?”), I can’t help the hormonal rush that seems to appear out of blue and carries off any short term memory that may have been lingering just for a while. Now, hot flushes (or flashes as you may call them)..Nope none of those…..hot flushes from the sheer embarrassment of turning up somewhere and having no idea why I am there! The amount of times I have returned from shopping with a load of tosh simply because I could not face walking out with nothing, having got there and realised I simply could not fathom why I had made the trip in the first place. Supper in our house can be very interesting sometimes……..

The really frustrating thing though is that I always remember that my husband has forgotten…if you get my drift! I may tell him 3 zillion times I am going such and such a place…only to have him tell me indignantly just as I am going out the door “well nobody told me you were going”! So what is that all about? If I could forget that I had told him our lives would be a lot more harmonious I am sure!

Right I have to drop my youngest off at the school disco in 10 mins…please pray that i will remember to collect him again in 2 hours !

]]> By: Lezhai http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-143 Lezhai Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:31:43 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-143 Gee....I haven't that problem at all. At least I can't remember if I do or not!!!! Oh no!!!! Gee….I haven’t that problem at all. At least I can’t remember if I do or not!!!! Oh no!!!!

]]> By: Debbie http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-122 Debbie Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:22:05 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-122 This short-term memory loss started happening years ago when I had 3 little children, a full-time job, and a house and a husband to take care of - brain overload! And it's just gotten worse as the years go by because I still have all the same things to do, the kids are just older! My kids laugh at me all the time, because I too will ask them something or make a comment about something we just discussed 5 minutes ago - completely forgetting we just discussed it! Or I'll dial someone's number, only to say, as they pick up, "I forgot why I was calling you!" As Pam said, I have no problem with remembering deadlines or things to do at work. It's just my home life for some reason. I leave myself voicemail messages all the time, because if I don't, it'll go out of my head instantly. You know that character Dory from "Finding Nemo"? I can so relate to her! This short-term memory loss started happening years ago when I had 3 little children, a full-time job, and a house and a husband to take care of - brain overload! And it’s just gotten worse as the years go by because I still have all the same things to do, the kids are just older! My kids laugh at me all the time, because I too will ask them something or make a comment about something we just discussed 5 minutes ago - completely forgetting we just discussed it! Or I’ll dial someone’s number, only to say, as they pick up, “I forgot why I was calling you!”

As Pam said, I have no problem with remembering deadlines or things to do at work. It’s just my home life for some reason. I leave myself voicemail messages all the time, because if I don’t, it’ll go out of my head instantly.

You know that character Dory from “Finding Nemo”? I can so relate to her!

]]> By: jane hodges http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-121 jane hodges Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:25:36 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-121 Yes, i have the same problem, but i'm sure it really is my age. Its got worse over the past year or so, so i think its just one of the symptoms of Menopause, and i'm told it gets better, so i'm not worried too much, its just more annoying then anything, especially for my kids i think, when they've just told me about something, then 5 minutes later i'm asking them something about the very same thing they just told me. They tut and go off in a huff. They think its because i'm not listening to them, but its not that at all. Do you have a PA Jeremy? You know the sort that keeps your diary and reminds you every 5 minutes that its your childs birthday etc...maybe thats the solution. (But make sure she/he is young, you don't want them to forget to look in the diary...:) ) Yes, i have the same problem, but i’m sure it really is my age. Its got worse over the past year or so, so i think its just one of the symptoms of Menopause, and i’m told it gets better, so i’m not worried too much, its just more annoying then anything, especially for my kids i think, when they’ve just told me about something, then 5 minutes later i’m asking them something about the very same thing they just told me. They tut and go off in a huff. They think its because i’m not listening to them, but its not that at all.

Do you have a PA Jeremy? You know the sort that keeps your diary and reminds you every 5 minutes that its your childs birthday etc…maybe thats the solution. (But make sure she/he is young, you don’t want them to forget to look in the diary…:) )

]]> By: Sue M http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-118 Sue M Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:01:17 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-118 Oh heck!! Can't even remember what comment I was going to add... **sigh** - "I'll be back" (I think).... SueM Oh heck!! Can’t even remember what comment I was going to add… **sigh** - “I’ll be back” (I think)….

SueM

]]> By: PamC http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-116 PamC Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:43:19 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-116 Jeremy - Sorry but I will have to second Ali on the memory issue. It's so bad sometimes for me that I can go into another room to get something and once in there promptly forget what I went in there for!! Talk about frustration. I forget things like that, but amazingly, I still do not need to write down my work schedule or appointments. I just seem to remember those. It's crazy. It's my VERY SHORT term memory that has short circuited HA Jeremy - Sorry but I will have to second Ali on the memory issue.
It’s so bad sometimes for me that I can go into another room to get something and once in there promptly forget what I went in there for!! Talk about frustration. I forget things like that, but amazingly, I still do not need to write down my work schedule or appointments. I just seem to remember those. It’s crazy. It’s my VERY SHORT term memory that has short circuited HA

]]> By: Ali http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-115 Ali Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:35:39 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2006/11/20/losing-my-mind-or-at-least-my-short-term-memory/#comment-115 Jeremy I do wish I could tell you it gets better (as I am a bit older than you…ok a lot older) or that I have info on a certain Amazon root drink that will help you remember what you went to the store for in the first place but I can’t help ya friend. I am getting to the end of the downhill side of forty…with that old 50 brick wall in front of me and finding the breaks no longer work and have found my brain no longer functions. My rooms are plastered with yellow sticky notes to help me remember errands to run, to pick up my daughter (last time I left her stranded at the Mall she wasn’t a happy teen), to change the clothes in the dryer…I have a basket hanging on my front doorknob to allow me (and my hubby) to drop our car keys in so we are not late for EVERYTHING looking for them. I can now understand the obsession with older men marrying much younger women…they need them to help them remember to put their pants on before leaving the house! Just the other day I spent 10 minutes wandering in the Mall parking lot searching for my car…panicked it had been stolen only to remember my hubby had dropped me off as he went to Best Buy. Thank heavens he remembered to pick me up! LOL! My favorite saying is, “Have you ever stopped to think and forgot to start again?” Welcome to middle age! LOL! Jeremy I do wish I could tell you it gets better (as I am a bit older than you…ok a lot older) or that I have info on a certain Amazon root drink that will help you remember what you went to the store for in the first place but I can’t help ya friend. I am getting to the end of the downhill side of forty…with that old 50 brick wall in front of me and finding the breaks no longer work and have found my brain no longer functions. My rooms are plastered with yellow sticky notes to help me remember errands to run, to pick up my daughter (last time I left her stranded at the Mall she wasn’t a happy teen), to change the clothes in the dryer…I have a basket hanging on my front doorknob to allow me (and my hubby) to drop our car keys in so we are not late for EVERYTHING looking for them. I can now understand the obsession with older men marrying much younger women…they need them to help them remember to put their pants on before leaving the house!
Just the other day I spent 10 minutes wandering in the Mall parking lot searching for my car…panicked it had been stolen only to remember my hubby had dropped me off as he went to Best Buy. Thank heavens he remembered to pick me up! LOL!

My favorite saying is, “Have you ever stopped to think and forgot to start again?” Welcome to middle age! LOL!

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