[Humour] Middle aged absent-mindedness

• Keep setting the fire alarms off because I forget I’ve put something under the grill
• Went to work in my gardening clumpy rubber crocs a few weeks back (they were so comfortable)
• Repeatedly putting things down and can’t find them for ages - cups of coffee, ear buds, glasses (spend ridiculous amounts of time looking for my damn glasses when half the time they are on my head)
• Turning up for work on days I’m supposed to be off
• Forgetting what day of the week it is
• Getting on the wrong train
• Forgetting appointments I’ve made

zeetha said:

Getting older sucks as evolution tries to kill us off because we're past the 'normal' life span - hearing starts to go so you can't hear danger coming, eyesight fails so you can't see it either. Then on top of that the body starts to fail in numerous ways both physically and then mentally which can be hormone related...

Currently going throught the Menopause and absolutely thought I was losing my mind, until the doctor prescribed HRT which has helped somewhat. I still find myself struggling to find the right words or remember stuff some days but its all just blooming hormones!

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Giraffe said:

When @Lenny Rider son Sam had to help me find my glasses on the flight to Rome I knew that I was in trouble.

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Guinness Boy said:

I sometimes get mental blocks on certain words. I know what I want to say but have forgotten the actual word itself.

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Guinness Boy said:

I honestly think the brain is a bit like a hard drive and at some point it has to delete stuff to fit other things in it.

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LamieRobertson said:

It’s the increasing regularity of going in to a room and forgetting why I wanted to go there, which is getting me

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ozzygull said:

Same as you the Menopause has been a *ucker. Mind you I get my daily exercise from going downstairs from my home office to get a drink, Go down get distracted by something then go back up but forgot the drink, go back down, and get drink, but left glasses downstairs go back down to get glasses. Each drink at least four trips up and down stairs.

On a more serious note, the depression and complete loss of confidence it caused was the worse. Luckily for me, I was able to go back to motorcycling after a 20-year break, which scared the hell out of me at first but also made me feel alive. It meant I was able to pull back some control. It would have been really easy for me to just give up on life.

I am glad HRT is helping you.

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thedonkeycentrehalf said:

Were they on your head?

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thedonkeycentrehalf said:

Were they on your head?

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loz said:

I have sear


I have spent ages looking for my glasses before, then found my spare pair, went to put them on only to find that I had my glasses on all the time FFS!

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Triggaaar said:

At what age do we all become totally useless?

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chickens said:

For me, 48 was when I noted a significant enough deterioration to put it in front of the doc. I was definitely hoping to avoid having any issues with memory etc until my late seventies at the earliest.

The doc gave me a clean bill of health, and I can’t say I’ve got significantly worse since then, but I’d describe my memory as “consistently shit.”

The worst thing about it is the loss of trust in self. I can swear blind that I’ve done something, can mentally picture myself having done it, and yet discover that I haven’t performed whatever action it is I’m meant to have completed, and that my brain has inserted “stock footage” of some other time I’ve performed the action to trick me into believing I’ve done it.

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chickens said:

It’s embarrassing and frustrating in equal measure.

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AlbionBro said:

How many people think COVID has damaged their brains via fog, strokes or mental health. I think short term memory has had a proper pasting in the last 5 years particularly with the over 50's.

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AlbionBro said:

How many people think COVID has damaged their brains via fog, strokes or mental health. I think short term memory has had a proper pasting in the last 5 years particularly with the over 50's.

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Green Cross Code Man said:

I noticed an appreciable deterioration in my memory after 2 nasty bouts of Covid. Also an increase in brain fog which often left me unable to think clearly in a way that I hadn't up until then experienced. My perception is that the fog symptom is lessening, but I am aware that it may simply be a case that I've adjusted accordingly and my expectations have changed.

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GT49er said:

COVID - or more specifically the lockdown - definitely had an effect. As a vulnerable person with no friends or relatives less than 30 miles away, shielding meant months where my only 'conversations' were with the ASDA driver on my weekly delivery and for a couple of minutes with neighbours whilst applauding the NHS. That was, quite literally, solitary confinement - and it certainly changed my life, and not in a good way. It's never returned to what it was, pre-COVID.

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AlbionBro said:

I think both of these are very common, I think many people are suffering from PTSD. But I doubt it would be viable to council probably 25% of the country. Exercise and time talking about it on forums like this may help. I am know expert, but I have certainly seen a change with my memory since COVID.

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