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and apparently I am not showing any signs of neurological damage.
The doc said my occasional memory lapses are more likely caused by my manic phase, and my PTSD than the beginnings of dementia
I think that's good news.
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Excellent news
I know from my own experience how frustrating both PTSD and Bipolar can be, but both are manageable.
Necessary responsibilities pull at you often, Your caretaking of your mom and your frequent assistance to your ex., along with being a parent, all add to the stress levels that contribute to the understandable lapses; you're frequently called upon to remember other people's needs.
Love, Andrea Lena
Yaay! for good news!
Just a feeling ... and I could be just >so< wrong ...
Feels like (to me) stress or overload - too many things going on, "juggling too many balls up in the air" ...
If the 'forgetting things' is stuff like "what the heck am I needing/wanting/promised/supposed to do today?" -
Then a simple small-enough-to-carry-around calendar/planner can help. (But only only calendar thingy - having more than one >helps< us drop things ... uhm ... No.)
One of the First (>not< last) Things to schedule is "Me Time" - a block of time just for yourself. Read, or have some wine, or meditate, or Solitaire, or go to a park, or stare into space, or music, or ... No, this is not a "selfish" thing. It's needed for your health, and for other people. I (we) don't want to be re-active jerk because I'm stressed out ... It is 'routine maintenance' for this "meat car" we are all driving around in.
Don't let people or chores steal Me Time. (OK, if you're really needed, or the toilet wants to overflow ... >But reschedule<, preferably for this same day.)
Allow some extra time for each of the things you want to get done. Murphy's Law says 'something' will go wrong.
Don't push really, really hard trying to remember something - that "makes it run away faster". And stress, "too much going on", too many distractions - all can mess with our remembering things.
Be good to yourself. You can't be as effective as you might want to be if you are frazzled, stressed, overloaded or otherwise discombobulated.
Murphy's Law
As we all know, Murphy's Law states that "Everything that can go wrong will go wrong." It's the first amendment to the law that will really do you in. It says, "After everything that can go wrong does go wrong, a few things that can't go wrong will anyway."
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
murphy
you forgot to add that murphy was an optimist, and a trailer that adds, it will go wrong in the most embarrassing way possible
Murphy
Murphy was one of the engineers who experimented with the limits of human tolerance for high-g experience, a real guy who even rode his own rocket sleds a few times. He knew whereof he spoke. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Yes, with stress sensors wired backwards
That was his specific mistake meriting the eponymous law.
Murphy's Law
FWIW, I've seen the 1st corollary as being "and it will do so at the worst possible time".
Per science fiction author Larry Niven, Murphy had/has a "relation" named Finagle. "Finagle's Law" states that the perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
G/R
One thing not mentioned
that causes memory lapses - old age, ie anytime after forty!
Angharad
Huge sigh of relief.
Great news, Dot!
Emma
Huge sigh of relief!
A big scare for me, years ago, was my first ocular migraine, and I remember well the feeling when the neurologist said there was no worry. Thanks for sharing your good news.
Ocular migraine ...
>Very< fortunately, mine come without pain, or at most a "one aspirin" ordinary headache.
My Mom also had them, and we both 'saw'/see them as an arc of blue & white lines, in kind of a herringbone pattern across our visual field. Lasts about 20 minutes. Worst case, reading is impaired, and driving ... well, just "No".
My first was when I was about 10, the most recent within the last week. I'm now 69.
Of what I found on the 'net, this is 'close' to what I "see": https://twitter.com/Art71Rachael/status/1440210161839185925,
Mostly only the arc, but only in blue and white, and minus all the other stuff outside of the arc.
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I know triggers vary; for me, it's not eating right and sleeping right, both, for about two days.