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i have a horrible memory and its scaring me
So im 16/f and i have an awful memory. I daydream a lot, im on my phone a lot and idk if that has anything to do with it? I'm trying to write in my journal from all the events of the last month and im drawing a blank. Its really frustrating, trying to remember something that happened that made me happy that i wanted to remember, something i did, events..but its all just a blur. There are things i can recall but its vague and its just worrying me cause its been like this for a while. I dont remember for how long though. Ugh is this serious? Or is it just im retaining so much info all the time and always thinking about other things that everything else just kindof gets puts in the back of my mind and just kindof fades away? Ah i dont know, does anyone else have this? Pleasr help!
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This is just my idea of a plausible cause and theres nothing we can do about it: I believe its something in our environment that has slowly been building up in our systems to the point it is affecting our brains. And it's not just memory related anymore. I have same problems. And yes...it's scary.
We live in a very toxic world today. There's stuff sprayed in the air to keep the planet from overheating, it falls to the ground eventually, gets into our soil and water and we breathe it in, pollution from man in the water whether oil spills, fracking, toxic waste spilled into water, and I haven't even gotten to food yet or the prescription or over the counter medications. I think some people are having problems now because everyones body is different genetically and some are more easily suseptible to having a problem but eventually it will get bad enough to affect everyone. I am in my 50s so I could reason that maybe it was age related, the memory thing. I am now writing a book. When I type and go back over what I wrote, I have to double check several times because even though writing and spelling and sentence form is my strength, I have found myself making the stupid errors that I know better about, like the different there, their and they're. So its a matter of my thoughts and intents getting scrambled right at the moment i am doing something. I am not the only one with this problem. I have noticed it becoming easy to spot in other peoples writings, especially on the internet over the last 5 yrs I'd say. The ads on sites that are free...I see all sorts of dumb spelling errors or the wrong word used. In the writing of people to this column, in reading on line books that were published...so many stupid irritating errors. And theres not one thing we can do about it. We need to learn to adapt. Try harder, focus harder. In case of memory, write your self lots of notes, on line, in a journal, sticky notes, a note pad, there's no over doing it cus this is a very serious problem and getting worse. Don't wait 10 mins to write something down cus the thought will be gone never to return.
Use this for life and for school. And don't just double check anything you do, quadruple check... its the way life is these days.
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That's actually how I am. I have these incredible moments in the past months but now I can hardly remember some of the things that happened.
I don't remember my childhood until something comes up that triggers the memory or anything that happened in the last few months and someone brought it up, then I'll remember.
I can't tell you whether yours is a serious problem or if it isn't.
If it's just memories that you can't recall, then it's probably not a big deal. If it's interfering with your life and ability to deal with everyday tasks, then you need to search for help with your memory.
For me, it's almost like trying to remember a dream that I had the night before. So a good way to start remembering things is to write them down. Like have a journal everyday or days that you do exciting things.
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I have the same exact problem. It is really annoying. But for me it helps if I put down an alarm on my phone and it'll remind me (this should be easy since you're always on your phone. If you've ever smoked pot that might be the reason. No really although pot is good for some people it does have bad effects(just like any other substance). I totally feel you.
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