Posted by bleauberry on August 4, 2008, at 21:17:39
In reply to Re: ECT cognitive side FX » okydoky, posted by Crotale on August 3, 2008, at 17:04:57
> oky -
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> You seem to me like a perfectly intelligent person, and I think your sentences are just fine. I'm just guessing, but I think you may be underestimating your intellectual abilities.
>Hey, I'll take that as a compliment. Cool. Thanks! Actually, weird, I do ok typing. In a conversation it is harder. Very often I just cannot find the word, or I am slow to talk and slow to think how to say it.
The intellectual part that is gone is in the memory. Whatever I study today will be distant in 2 weeks. 2 months, forget it, it's gone. Good thing though it does come back fairly quick with some refresher. Isn't so hard to learn the second time. It's like the memory is there, but hidden, and I just have to open the door and then, ahh ahh, ok, now I remember. Ya know? Weird.
Still today, an entire 3 months of my life is completely erased. No recall whatsoever. 6 months leading up to ECT, and 3 months following it, are very very sketchy. I remember bits and pieces, but there are huge gaps and fog.
What is really weird is that I can remember striking details about some little silly thing, and yet have zero memory of something anyone would definitely remember.
Names. People's names. Gosh, I am so bad at that now. I used to be so good at it. People I've worked with for almost 3 years now, well, don't tell any of them, but probably 3/4 of them I don't know their names, even though I see it on their name badge every day. Thank you for name badges!
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