2006-12-06 09:30:06 · 11 answers · asked by Scunnered! 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
It can be. It's often related to the meds we take. I was as dumb as a box of rocks on Lamictal and amitriptyline before my psychiatrist suggested taking high dose B vitamins (the psych meds do a number on your liver, and that leaves you short of the B vits your brain needs). Or something. Anyway, it helped me a lot.
2006-12-07 04:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by Random Bloke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am bi-polar, and I have never actually had a problem with remembering things. Now occasionally I can mix things up a little because my thoughts are always racing, but I don't think it's typical to forget things. None of the other people I have talked to with bi-polar have mentioned anything about forgetting stuff. I guess it differs from person to person.
2006-12-06 17:48:11 · answer #2 · answered by stacijo531 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm BP and I have an awful memory...I don't forget conversations but ask me how a movie I saw a month ago ended and I will stare blankly.
There is an area of the brain - the hippocampus - that helps regulate mood and memory. It's been found that people who have had BP over a long period of time have changes in the size and shape of this part of the brain (as well as the frontal lobes.) To me, it seems logical if there are problems in this area relating to mood that the problems could extend to problems with memory.
2006-12-06 20:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was diagnosed with bi-polar for five yearsand I have plenty of bp friends and yet I have never heard of that as a symptom. Maybe you just have a bad memory or suffering from alziemers disease depending on how old you are.
2006-12-06 17:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by ANathaniel18 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, for two reasons. One it depends on what state of your bi-polar you are in. Your really high stage of bi-polar you are talking so fast and moving around so fast you really can't keep up with yourself, much less the other people around you. The second one can be the medicine that you are on. depending on the medicine you are on it can mess with your short term memory.
My long term memory is very very well. but my short term memory is shot. I now have to write everything down. including my own tel phone number, people's names .
I thought I was getting Alzheimer's. but that was not the case. its my meds. and nothing I can do about it. cause not only do they treat my depression they treat my seizures too.
I hope this helps.
2006-12-06 17:46:21 · answer #5 · answered by ms_swampy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im bp 1 and i dont forget things more or less like anyone else; in, fact, i remember things when i was as early as five
2006-12-06 19:27:30 · answer #6 · answered by I.M. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am also bipolar and YES YES YES this is true for me...I have to write things down all the time...I did ask my psychiatrist about it and she said that it IS common not just in episodes even when medications are not incorporated
2006-12-06 21:59:13 · answer #7 · answered by Mandy K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely - especially if they are on a manic swing. Their minds run too fast & they jump from 1 thing to another.
2006-12-06 17:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by Da Bomb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm bipolar & I've never had that problem, its more the opposite, I can't seem to ever forget anything!
2006-12-06 17:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by Sherrie L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm bipolar and remember extremely well. It has to do with your imagination, not a chemical imbalance.
2006-12-06 17:32:40 · answer #10 · answered by unseen_force_22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋