Discussion How good is your memory?

[Forever Sleep]

Especially for things like the date or even the year you did something?

Mine is terrible. I can usually recall doing something, just about but, I'm hopeless when it comes to remembering when.

My Dad is the same. So, maybe it's genetic. I think also though, there are great chunks of life I'd just rather forget so, maybe my brain is just wired to try and forget things. How about you?

 

[anhedonic_moron]

horrible to say the least, short term memory is out the window. my cognition is declining

 

[tarnishedstoner]

Really good

 

[Sphene]

My short term memory is terrible. Brain fog from severe depression + ME/CFS is not doing me any favors.

Long term memory is not much better, last 10 years is just a blur.

 

[unluckysadness]

I have memory loss (probably because of benzos and fatigue). The other day I started two loads of laundry the same day (the same clothes... I didn't take them out the first time...) And other bad things like this. I have to write everything down.

 

[ScaredCutter]

im not sure but, whenever i try to think about my time in elementary, its all emptiness except for a few things in 6th, 5th and 4th but those memories are just minor stuff or something im srill mad about lol. i cant really remember important dates unless im reminded of it but thats mostly nothing to me tbh.

when referring to tge past, ive forgotten majority of it but, thats rlly it

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

Terrible. I have been experiencing fairly intense brain fog since 2015, so I have issues with both short term and long term recall, as well as piecing together my life in any meaningful way. I don't have a good sense of chronology or even things like distance when traveling. I've also been prone to occasional bouts of confabulation, where I've somehow made up things that I thought happened, but didn't.

 

[LittleSunshine]

Short-term memory destroyed, long-term memory still in tact. Should be the other way around.

 

[gunmetalblue]

I have the short term memory of a goldfish, and dissociative amnesia of most past events and mundane time that passes.

 

[OnceTheHappiestMan]

Used to have great memory, but lastly it has worsened a lot.

 

[Forveleth]

I started perimenopause and pretty much have no memory left. This is normal except I started about 12 years early so I have the brain of a 52 year old in a 40 year old body..

 

[Unsure and Useless]

The odds of me having good memory were stacked against me from the beginning. Whatever happened to me in childhood was either so boring or so traumatic that I barely have any recollection of anything leading up me being 10 years old. Following that, academic stress ruined my memory even more since I was consistently depriving myself of sleep out of a need to regain control over my life, so I don't remember anything spanning the mandatory American education period as well as anything that occurred during that time. Depression makes memory even worse, so now, I barely remember what happened a couple hours ago

Moral of the story: If you tell me a secret, believe me when I say no one will ever know, not even me in a few hours

 

[Pluto]

 

[TwistedNightmares]

My memory in general is awful.

 

[FoxSauce]

Short term to the point I forget 3 pins on 3 cards. Lost my phone , almost lost the other one. Cant focus sometimes.

Forget appointments sometimes. Putting back where they originally work and sometimes I moalty dont remember what I did the day before (sometimes)

If you tell me a secret I'll forget it.

My mother blames it cause of my phone

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

so good when it comes to embarassing or traumatizing experiences

 

[somewhatdeadly]

mine was pretty good my whole life. i don't easily forget anything.

 

[justanotherbody]

Yeah, I've got a strong memory. Mostly from anxiety leading me to constantly evaluate every moment of my life, so things just kind of get encoded in there pretty rigidly.

 

[Gangrel]

mine is awful, i swear depression gives you brain damage because no way this is the same brain that used to read books, do homework and stuff like that when i was younger

 

[Buffy]

Terrible. There were periods when my depression was at its worst, and I remember very little of them. Or maybe my memory has always been bad, I can't tell.

 

[LonelyPrince]

Forgot most of my childhood and my past.
However I am able to remember details that people tell me...unless it's numbers.

 

[Andarna]

Oh my... My stupid mind won't let me forget so many unpleasant and embarrassing things. The worse the experience, the better I remember them. These memories shine like fireflies fluttering in thick fog. And that fog is the rest of my life, which I've mostly forgotten.

So, I have a pretty good long-term selective memory focused on negative things and a pretty good short-term memory.

However, I can't pin a specific event to a date. All the years blur together.

 

[ceelobling]

I have a really good memory, and I hate it. It's a curse. I hate that I remember all these random memories of anything. I remember things that no one else remembers, like I can say to someone, "remember when you said this and when you did that." They don't even remember, but I do. It also pisses me off when a random unpleasant memory or unpleasant people come to mind, and I'm forced to remember it. It's all because of this curse. I don't like having all these memories, it's like why do I always have to think of past stuff? I want to move on, but these memories force me to remember old moments. It's also like why am I even remembering this stuff? I'm in the present, I don't care about these unimportant things that happened in the past. I wish all the old random memories would just leave me.

 

[Unlucky777]

It WAS amazing up until psychiatrist approved poison meds destroyed it. But it is improving and I'm getting my memory back little by little after having stopped taking the poison for over a year now.

 

[InBetweenTheBars]

Extraordinarily good for random and useless things and exceptionally bad for actual life events that I should remember

 

[ImUnknown]

Very bad and it's actually quite weird because I don't think it used to be like that

 

[Forever Sleep]

Very bad and it's actually quite weird because I don't think it used to be like that

Sometimes I wonder if the brain becomes forgetful as a form of defence/ protection. If there are things it's actually better for us not to dwell on.

 

[ImUnknown]

Sometimes I wonder if the brain becomes forgetful as a form of defence/ protection. If there are things it's actually better for us not to dwell on.

When I do a compulsion my memory starts to doubt if I did or not and I can sometimes completely forget that I did it, I know I did something though. Maybe it's burnout

 

[jazzcat621]

I used to be able to remember literally anything anyone told me. Now I forget what I'm talking about half way through a sentence, or even what I was doing 5 seconds prior.

 

[whywere]

I am 69 turning 70 pretty soon, Memory, what is that? I cannot remember what that is!

Seriously, mine is so, so at best.

Walter