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solidwater05 · 4 months
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Apparently this needs to be said so
Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!
You're not a bad person if you...
forget things quickly
forget people
can't remember entire stages of your life
can't remember important things
can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time
can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests
forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc
forget to reply to texts
remember things and immediately forget them again
can't remember birthdays, events, etc
frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions
can't retain new information
forget things you used to know
only remember things when it's too late
have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories
depend on others to know how an event you were in played out
have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa
... and anything else I might have missed!
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schizopositivity · 10 months
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Schizophrenic people: *struggle to identify our feelings* *have memory problems* *can be traumatized by our psychosis* *can have trouble speaking at all* *are afraid to talk about psychotic symptoms because of the intense stigma*
Nonschizophrenic people: So what do you hallucinate? What are your delusions? How do you feel when those happen?
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nagichi-boop · 2 years
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Can we abolish the term “if it was important you would remember it”? Cuz like…it’s not true at all. I forget important things all the time. Like taking meds? Appointments? I’m sorry we don’t all have perfect memory, Samantha.
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sunshinegremlin · 6 months
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CALLING ALL PPL WHO STRUGGLE TO KEEP A CALENDAR!
I used to keep a bullet journal years ago but I completely fell off it once COVID began. Since then, I have had no calendar to keep my life together.
As someone with ADHD, a calendar would help me stay sane, but every time I tried to get back into it, no matter what I tried, it never stuck. Therefore, my life was a mess.
But while reading a Webtoon (called "30 Minutes With You" if you're interested, it's really wholesome) the main character does daily doodles in her pocket calendar, and then it clicked.
I've been doing daily little doodles in my pocket calendar and I've generally kept up for two months now! Overall, it's been really fun AND has kept me more put together!
Here is an example:
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You can get a pocket calendar from Dollar Tree for $1.25 (if you're in the US and Canada)! I use blank office labels cut into the right size as the white squares I draw on just because it looks better.
This has also really helped my memory, because once stuff happens my brain forgets it immediately. It really makes me feel like my life is fuller and it's been easier to look back and see how far I've come!
Hope it helps! 💛
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furiousgoldfish · 2 years
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The memory loss as a feature of ptsd and dissociative disorder is rarely talked about. It's not only 'big holes in memories' or 'blank periods of time', though of course that happens too. But you lose people from your memory too.
Relationships, friendships. People who once meant everything to you, you can't recall their names anymore. People you only casually knew during a period of trauma can fade from your mind completely. You can't remember what you said to someone, what conversations you had together, even the fights and the lows, it all becomes a blur, and then completely fades away.
Your life is sorted into periods of whatever trauma was going on at the moment, but you can't recall what else took place. What you learned, what experiences you had, the normal things you did that later feel bizzare for a person in your situation to do, to be able to do. Or you don't remember the trauma, and it's difficult to put things into any kind of context.
And for your childhood, it's impossible to make a timeline out of it. Events mesh together, there's no before or after, to link an event to a year is almost impossible, for any event you can't tell if you were 5 or 8 or 14, you try and make sense based on what else was going on in your life, except you can't quite remember what it was. You lived one life at home, a whole another life in school or public space, another one online, and they don't seem to be connected at any point, and to link it all in a timeline feels impossible.
The memories that don't hold strong emotions fade first, but eventually, the ones with strong emotions fade too.
Your short term memory becomes difficult as well, it feels like an incredible strain to remember anything you did 2 weeks ago, or 2 days ago, or yesterday. If you're reminded of something that went on a year ago, it's a shock because you no longer remember it as something that happened at all. Your brain erases anything that ended as something that never happened, or isn't worth recalling, or would only stress you out to think about, so you don't, and it goes away.
Having a memory surge back is stressful, because you realize you never thought about this event, or this person, for years, and this meant something to you, it formed you and shaped your life, it made you feel something. But it was gone for so long, and probably, the second you forget it, it will be gone again. It's hard to see who you are when you no longer know who you were. You don't know how anyone perceives you because you don't recall your experience together.
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aroacejedi · 4 months
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Sometimes having adhd is terrifying. Memories just disappear, but you can still feel that there was something there, and now there's a void, and you know there is something important but you have no way of recalling it
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the-scrapegoat · 7 months
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A whumpee with terrible memory problems, worsened when under stress until they go blank and/or mute with terror while their mind scrambles to think about anything other than the growing panic fogging up their mind. What are they forgetting, what are they forgetting?!-
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nelkcats · 1 year
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Glimpse of a Lifetime
After years of working for the Waynes, age is finally catching up with the butler. Alfred begins to forget important things. Including those he love with all his heart.
It started with small things: from forgetting to feed the animals to waking up in the middle of the night and forgetting it after a few minutes. Alfred was aware that something was up, but he brushed it off.
However, the situation begins to escalate when he starts to forget the names of the children in the mansion one by one, and although he tries to cover it up, they all start to notice.
At the beginning, he and the other inhabitants of the manor look for excuses: a villain attack, mind control, a weapon that erases memory, etc. But when each one of Bruce's kid goes through a different experience they begin to accept reality: There is no doubt, Alfred is sick.
Unlike the others, Bruce refuses to accept that there is no cure for the disease and seeks every possible option. When he is about to give up he stumbles with an ancient legend: The Yeti.
A legend that talks about the old days, where there was a friendly Yeti who was able to cure any disease. And it may be his last hope. X
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spooksforsammy · 7 months
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Not cute or fun have memory problems. Especially when not understand why have problem in first place.
Having memory problems mean have interest, have things want learn more about but. Won’t always remember information. Can try and try and try learn information about bats but it won’t always stay. I have to use that bat information space to do things in school that bring no use. Like moves to volleyball. Even when do what Amy currently do, write notes when reading about bats, the information gets replaced with something don’t want have In brain, then end up lose both and can’t seem get back and keep.
Have memory problems means always trying talk to boyfriend and how and went get feelings hurt but not able to remember a time when that happened. Even if know happen, even if memory of happening is in brain, the actual event isn’t there, isn’t something I can voice out.
Memory problems means want talk about certain things but can’t remember what want to say. Could be something very very important but not remember. Left time that happened, had something important say but not remember, Amy fell really bad and if brother not come get Amy up off ground, would have just continued laying there dizzy and confused.
When people say have memory issues, trouble remembering or keeping information in don’t think cute, wish had some problem so couldn’t remember bad events. Because effect so much more and effect things don’t want effected
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sweetpeauserboxes · 2 years
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[id: a light orange userbox with a pastel orange border, and pastel orange text that reads “this user’s memory isn’t the best and has trouble thinking please be patient with them ” on the left is an image of a small orange heart. /end id]
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quicksilvermad · 2 months
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I wish tumblr had a thing where you could see who you were mutuals with when you go to their blog because I can remember maybe five of your usernames off the top of my head and those are all people I know from LiveJournal.
@cincoflex @ladytalon1 @vr-trakowski @zionangel @gehayi
I have terrible memory now. My TBI wiped out my ability to recall names. I used to be able to remember everyone’s name and that’s a lost talent.
Sometimes I need help remembering how familiar I can be with someone on the internet. That’s why I wish it said “mutuals” even on the dash. Like…
This name and avatar are familiar but is mine familiar to them? I’m never sure anymore. How comfortable would they be with me messaging them?
I remember my LiveJournal mutuals because I’ve known them a long time.
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little-blurry-stars5 · 4 months
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"hey do u remember-" no.
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schizopositivity · 11 months
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Why it's hard for schizophrenic people to get treatment and diagnosis for physical health problems:
• Having "schizophrenic" in our charts makes a lot of medical professionals automatically not believe us. Especially if it is a problem that they can't instantly see themselves. They may think we are either delusional or having some kind of tactile hallucinations. They could see it more as a "psychiatric problem" rather than the physical medical problem that it is.
• If you have flat or blunted affect, they may not believe you, especially if you are describing pain. They have the expectations that you would be screaming, crying, grimacing, etc. When you are straight faced and monotone and say "I am in extreme pain right now" they will likely not believe you. And this paired with medical professionals views of chronic pain just makes them not believe you even more.
• Alexithymia makes describing your symptoms very hard, and even harder to describe how the symptoms affect you. The medical professional goes off of what you tell them, if you are vague or don't have the words, they will not understand you or not believe what you are describing. Either way that will hinder your road to treatment and diagnosis.
• Having memory problems, or trouble keeping track of things can also hinder your care. If you can't remember, or even remember to write down how often a symptom occurs, how long it lasts, how it felt in the moment, and how it impacted your life at the time, they may once again not believe you. Diagnosis often requires some sort of timeline or prevalence of symptoms, and not keeping track of that could keep you from diagnosis.
• They may avoid prescribing pain killers (even if you need it) because the fact that schizophrenic people are more likely to abuse drugs than the general population. And while that fact is true, it doesn't mean that someone in extreme pain does not deserve the right to pain killers just as much as anyone else who needs them.
• Being part of a disenfranchised group while also being schizophrenic can have compounding affects on your physical health treatment. Being low-income, being a person of color, being assigned female at birth, being transgender, being intersex, any other disenfranchised group or any combination of these will impact how you are treated by the healthcare system.
• Fear of medical professionals, or fear of Dr.s offices can impact the quality of your visit. You may feel too frightened to tell them how you really feel, you may just completely avoid going into the building at all. This can happen to anyone but is especially common for schizophrenic people due to our paranoia, inability to advocate for ourselves, lack of self esteem, historical medical abuse or personal experiences with medical abuse. Plus we can have doubts about the quality of our care because of any of the other reasons listed above.
And all this occurs while we as schizophrenic people, are at higher risks of several physical health problems (you can read about it here):
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thecouncilofidiots · 6 days
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Uhh, maybe?? Don't be upset at the person with dissociative amnesia for not remembering a thing? Especially if it's a passing thing from weeks ago?
Please?? -Ace
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ghost-sketchbook · 1 year
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audhdnight · 5 months
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Got muted in three of my Facebook groups this week alone for pointing out ableism because they call it “armchair diagnosis”.
Like bro I didn’t say “this person definitely has pda profile autism” I said “it’s ableist to moan incessantly about how gross it is when people don’t brush their teeth and how disgusting people who struggle with hygiene are, whether this person has a causal condition or not”.
I have since left all three groups because FUCK THAT but also one woman responded to my comment simply saying “yeah as someone who struggles with hygiene I probably shouldn’t have read these comments” and THAT is exactly who I’m speaking up for. I am so sick of getting silenced for defending my own fucking community.
For context: the group I’m specifically referencing in the above example is dedicated to making fun of the trash men who send unsolicited pics and get really really upset when you aren’t impressed. Someone shared a post in that group where a woman told a man she would expect him to brush his teeth multiple times a day, and his response was, verbatim: “That doesn’t work for me. I suggest you find someone you think is better than me. Good luck.”
Like… that’s not even what this group is for??? He said they didn’t click, respectfully cut contact, and wished her well?? He wasn’t even rude! WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PROBLEM WITH ANY OF WHAT HE SAID??????
And everyone was in the comments with puke emojis and saying things like “no one should have to ask for basic hygiene” or “there is no excuse for this” or “men are so fucking disgusting”. Like hello casual ableism? Also, men are not the only ones who could struggle with caring for themselves. There are SO. MANY. reasons someone might not brush their teeth often. I personally have a hard time with it because with my adhd I genuinely just forget and with my autism the sensory experience can be a LOT so it’s hard to make myself do it on the rare occasions when I do remember. And I’m definitely not a man, cis or otherwise.
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