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Memory loss
Well i think this has been going on ever since i started my junior year in high school, i started off good and then it suddenly came to me..... recently i found my self to be VERY VERY forgetting, and lazy, and almost aged. Like if i were to read a book and i see somthing i like and i want to remember it, i probably would highlight it and write it down, maybe a day or two later i try to remember it and i cant!!!! I can barely remember what i ate yesterday, even in the momemnt sometimes i just cant remember what i just did for example.....i was driving with my mother yesterday and we stopped at some place so i can get food, and she remembered she had to go to my grandma's house to get some jewlery for her friend that my grandfather fixed.....so we both are sitting in the car and i ask her "so are we going to tetas house to get the stuff" she replies "yea we have to go" FIVE MINUTES LATER i ask the SAME EXACT THING.....and she says "yea i just answered you like two seconds ago...." I think i really have bad memory now and i cant remember most things. In math i find myself slowly doing bad, not understanding any of the things my teacher explains, and doing bad overall in the class. I can barely remember who i talked to yesterday, what i did, where i went, what time i did a certain thing. I even had a very good question to ask you guys; and i was sure it was going to be a very good one, and i forgot it........ I dont know why i dont know how (maybe to much video games?) but im slowly loosing my memory and all i can remember is my church stuff and a little bit of chemistry.... Anyone have an explaination? and helpful tip? a way to solve this? Anything is appreciated (lets just hope i remember what you said :'( )
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But it's not always the internet that does that, sometimes it's cause your too focused on one thing (maybe school.. maybe people..) and thats all youre thinking about, so nothing else is really important to you (hence you forget it... your brain only remembers what you want it to remember). You should def break up your time and and attention, so your mind isn't only on one specific idea/subject/whatever... sometimes, though, this can be a good thing.. like monks in the desert are too occupied with God, and they find themselves so detached from the world and nothing really matters to them lol (you probably shouldn't do that since you still go to school :P )
Maybe we can get some advice from the psychologist here :)
May the internet's wrath not come upon us.
i told the doctor and she said i have to take vitamin B12
idk though
it's good to see that i am not alone (i get made fun of a lot for my lack of memory)
1. It does not cure sleep disorders, it makes you lose your sleepiness. So it acts almost like caffiene, which is not beneficial at all.
2. You body can become dependant on it
3. It has lots of side effects, including (but not limited to): Anxiety, depression, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping, dizziness, dry mouth, headache, infection, loss of appetite, loss of muscle strength, lung problems, nausea, nervousness, prickling or tingling feeling, runny nose, and sore throat ... YIKES!!
4. It has the potential for abuse because it can alter your mood, perception, thinking, and feelings and give you an artificial "high" (sort of like some narcotics)... I gues this is why some people feel it makes them focus more.
Overall, it's not a very safe drug to use and would be as effective in "improving memory" as drinking a cup of coffee, except that it has all these side effects as well.
deaconmark123, the best thing that actually helps your memory is potassium and Omega 3, both found in fish. lol but because we're fasting now, you could get the potassium from eating bananas and the omega 3 from taking dietary omega pills. Try to get some sleep too because that's when all your memories are consolidated and stored as long-term memory. Also, if your memory does not go through its short-term stages first, meaning if you don't focus, then there's no way it would get stored as long-term memory for later recall. using your example, when your mom asked you the question, you were probably only half-listening and replying absent-mindedly and that's why her answer didn't go to short-term and then long-term memory so you couldn't remember it later. However, if you had focused on what she'd said with all your attention, I guarantee you would've remembered it! try these tricks and let me know how it works out :D
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