No memory of doing things??

[deletetacount123]

Why do we do things we have NO MEMORY of doing?!?!

When you relaize it, your looking at the object thinking "When did I do that? How did I do that... Why can't I remember doing that?!?!"

So today Im just feeling tired... Im well aware of everything Im up to.
I make a bagel, put my tea cup on the counter with a tea bag in to make tea after Im finished my bagel.

Eat bagel on the couch, watching a rerun of 7th Heaven.
Done bagel, happened to look over at the stove and well, The front stove is on BUT the kettle was sitting where it usually sits at the back when not in use!!!!

And the worse thing is I HAVE NO MEMORY OF TURNING THAT THING ON!!!!

And my alarm is on, no one but me is in this house.

Ever since that odd dream I had last night, Ive been feeling weird and odd and now things are doing things on thier own when they shouldn't!!!

Ah!! at least I don't have a gas stove now that would have been baaaaaaaaad.

Sometimes its days like this I wonder if I have a split personaiity. The unborn twin or something.

Tasha

[Tommy2020]

Two possibilities Tasha:
1. Senior Moment
2. Brain Fart

Have a great day....
Tommy2020 :sleep:

[deletetacount123]

Two possibilities Tasha:
1. Senior Moment
2. Brain Fart

Have a great day....
Tommy2020 :sleep:

1. Im only 28 (will be in July)
2. Naaah

[darkeyes]

Why do we do things we have NO MEMORY of doing?!?!

When you relaize it, your looking at the object thinking "When did I do that? How did I do that... Why can't I remember doing that?!?!"

So today Im just feeling tired... Im well aware of everything Im up to.
I make a bagel, put my tea cup on the counter with a tea bag in to make tea after Im finished my bagel.

Eat bagel on the couch, watching a rerun of 7th Heaven.
Done bagel, happened to look over at the stove and well, The front stove is on BUT the kettle was sitting where it usually sits at the back when not in use!!!!

And the worse thing is I HAVE NO MEMORY OF TURNING THAT THING ON!!!!

And my alarm is on, no one but me is in this house.

Ever since that odd dream I had last night, Ive been feeling weird and odd and now things are doing things on thier own when they shouldn't!!!

Ah!! at least I don't have a gas stove now that would have been baaaaaaaaad.

Sometimes its days like this I wonder if I have a split personaiity. The unborn twin or something.

Tasha In my case Tash..excess of plonk, which as one particularly lovely piss-taking member of the site will keep reminding me makes me very funnily and stupidly soppy! I deny it all.. what I am unable to remember never happened!

[NothingToSeeHere]

HA! You remind me of what happened last week.

I was working from home and decided I wanted a krumpet treat (you know, the two yellow cakes w/ the butterscotch frosting). So, I went downstairs, grab one, and came back up. I took a bite, put it down, and the next thing I knew that piece was all gone. WTF happened? I thought "ah, I guess I ate it all". Then I started on the next one. Took a bite and set the rest down. Next thing I knew, THAT ONE was gone also! Ok, WTF is happening here. Is there some gremlins in my place stealing Krumpets? I even went as far as asking my girl if she ate it (she came in my office to say hello). I was pissed "How could you eat my Krumpet! I was so looking forward to that all day" :P

Suffice to say, she didn't eat it. :( Once again, she's right, I'm wrong. I HATE that!

[bi-robin-calif]

Me old gaffer--turned 80 this month--once told me, "The older I get, the more I act like Lady." Lady is his 10-year-old English Cocker Spaniel.

I asked him what he meant, and he said, "Well, just watch her sometimes. She'll come running down the hallway, get halfway across the living room, stop, sit down and then look around as if to say 'what did I come in here for?'"

I said, "Da, that isn't getting old--I've been doing it since my teens."

So we laughed and opened a couple more bottles of Harp.

[snipped]

There's two signs of old age. One is loss of memory, and the other is..... uh, give me a minute, I'll think of it :(
I think I had amnesia once, but I really couldn't say for sure.

[deletetacount123]

There's two signs of old age. One is loss of memory, and the other is..... uh, give me a minute, I'll think of it :(
I think I had amnesia once, but I really couldn't say for sure.

The other is when you have so much going on in your mind it never occurs to you that you do things without knowing it cause your to busy thinking of something else :tong: :tongue: :tong: :tong: :tongue: :tong: :tongue:

Maybe I turned on the stove when I was still looking at the TV screen nearby not realzing the kettle wasn't there :( Since in my mind I was gonna make tea.

[Herbwoman39]

Everyone has brief zone-out moments regardless of age. You probably just got busy thinking about something else and spaced out that you did turn on the stove. No big. Happens to everyone once in a while.

[deletetacount123]

Everyone has brief zone-out moments regardless of age. You probably just got busy thinking about something else and spaced out that you did turn on the stove. No big. Happens to everyone once in a while.

true :) at least I caught it quickly lol Unlike my sister who once left the OVEN on in my parents house at 400 degrees ALL NIGHT LONG.

When we lived at home, she had made something, took it out and forgot about turning off the oven.

Spaced out moments are interesting lol

[jedinudist]

Stress and anxiety can also cause this sort of thing to happen. Your mind has the ability to run many tasks on "autopilot". When it's running that way (because it is over-taxed and distracted) things that are deemed "less important" (which is anything other than whatever is distracting it) may not be saved into short and long term memory because the mind's resources are concentrating mostly on something else, with just enough resources focused on the "insignificant" task to get it accomplished.

At least that was my doctor's explanation.

[Enoll]

There's only on explanation, ghosts! :eek:

[spartca]

Everyone dissociates to a small degree - spacing out while driving, for example.

If you find yourself losing a lot of time, you may have dissociative identity disorder, what used to be called multiple personality. If you suspect you might be a multiple, you might want to keep a journal. Often alternate personalities can communicate with each other via a journal.

[deletetacount123]

Everyone dissociates to a small degree - spacing out while driving, for example.

If you find yourself losing a lot of time, you may have dissociative identity disorder, what used to be called multiple personality. If you suspect you might be a multiple, you might want to keep a journal. Often alternate personalities can communicate with each other via a journal.

I am thinking that Spartca.... it happened to me again today.....

I had long supected I may have dissociative identity disorder but since it happened rarely in the past, I never did much about it.
Now it seems to be happening more and more, almost as if its become more active.
I was drawing for a short time to try to commuciate with myself but I may just start keeping a journal. But i do have spare notebooks (the big school ones lol leftovers from my school days) so I may just use that instead.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dissociative-disorders/DS00574/DSECTION=2
Ummmm yep, must have that then.....

Thanks for the suggestion :)
Tasha

[spartca]

Sure no problem! Some potentially useful tidbits:

There is usually but not always a coordinator personality... it is often not the host or main personality.

Treatment in the past used to focus on integration of all the subpersonalities into one single coherent personality. However today more often but not always treatment focuses on co-consciousness - full sharing of all memories and knowledge amongst personalities. It just depends on the client and their goals.

There are therapists who specialize in treating DID clients... you definitely might want to consider seeking one out if you're working on this issue.

Best on your journey :)

[deletetacount123]

Sure no problem! Some potentially useful tidbits:

There is usually but not always a coordinator personality... it is often not the host or main personality.

Treatment in the past used to focus on integration of all the subpersonalities into one single coherent personality. However today more often but not always treatment focuses on co-consciousness - full sharing of all memories and knowledge amongst personalities. It just depends on the client and their goals.

There are therapists who specialize in treating DID clients... you definitely might want to consider seeking one out if you're working on this issue.

Best on your journey :)

No therapists :tongue: :tongue: As long as its not doing anything harmful or bad then Im not gonna worry about it..... :)

[spartca]

No therapists :tongue: :tongue: As long as its not doing anything harmful or bad then Im not gonna worry about it..... :)

Yeah most folks with DID are very smart and high-functioning. You'd have to be in order to pull it off for very long.

Partners learn to cope - but it might be nice for them to have some information about how best to do this. The more you learn about the landscape of your DID the better off everyone will be!

Therapists can be great, but I imagine there must be support groups out there as well. Personally I would prefer a licensed professional to a bunch of strangers if I were in a vulnerable spot though. You know how bisexual support groups can attract wankers trolling for hot bi babes? I would imagine a DID support group could attract all kinds of vampires as well.

[flexuality]

You'd have to be in order to pull it off for very long.



Just looking to clarify.....what do you mean by this statement? I am confused as to the use of the phrase "pull it off"......

[deletetacount123]

Just looking to clarify.....what do you mean by this statement? I am confused as to the use of the phrase "pull it off"......

I wonder the same thing Flexie :)

[spartca]

By "pull it off" I meant largely going undetected in the world and not causing trouble that would draw unwanted attention to oneself - for example, from the authorities or the surrounding people in one's life.

Often DID represents an incredibly creative way of coping in the face of a life-threatening trauma. It's quite a sophisticated defense that usually indicates a great deal of cognitive ability.

This is in stark contradiction to folks with certain other mental health diagnoses, who are largely dead before retirement age because of self-harm or pissing other people off, and who are constantly being rounded up by the authorities. These others don't usually pull things off very well.

Did that answer your question?

[flexuality]

yeah I think so.....at first I thought you were alluding to it being faked or something....or that people always know that they're multiple from day one and just hide it....