DOES ANYONE KNOW THE EXACT EXPLANATION FOR THE MEMORY ISSUES
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We're largely unconscious for most of our day to day experience. Especially if its very routine and we're not interacting too much with people. If depression is dominating that can interfere with our memory as well.
I think it's quite normal, but if you're focusing and obsessing on this, it can seem bigger than it is. We can't be conscious all of the time, that would be too exhausting for us. So stuff that can be automated ? showering, driving a car, ringing a register, typing, our minds will automate. It gives us a break and allows us to have conversations in our head like "Sally, that jerk, this is the last time I'm going to let her get away with... etc. etc..."
But if we're experiencing forms of distress ? anxiety, depression etc. we're likely to be more in our heads, hence less consciousness of the world around us, and hence, loss of memory of day to day activities. Don't be alarmed, it's just a symptom of whatever you are going through.
Get outside and do some memorable things, novel things, things that you don't normally do for yourself.
Go to a movie, a bike ride, walk in the woods, anything out of the ordinary for you. I guarantee you'll remember it the next day.
I think it's quite normal, but if you're focusing and obsessing on this, it can seem bigger than it is. We can't be conscious all of the time, that would be too exhausting for us. So stuff that can be automated ? showering, driving a car, ringing a register, typing, our minds will automate. It gives us a break and allows us to have conversations in our head like "Sally, that jerk, this is the last time I'm going to let her get away with... etc. etc..."
But if we're experiencing forms of distress ? anxiety, depression etc. we're likely to be more in our heads, hence less consciousness of the world around us, and hence, loss of memory of day to day activities. Don't be alarmed, it's just a symptom of whatever you are going through.
Get outside and do some memorable things, novel things, things that you don't normally do for yourself.
Go to a movie, a bike ride, walk in the woods, anything out of the ordinary for you. I guarantee you'll remember it the next day.
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