Any mental activity will help. Vitamins and supplements known to help mental function are omega-3s, gingko-bilboa, vitamin B group and vitamins C and E. There's a lot more information available just a search away!

Crossword puzzles help me a lot. I like play any trivial game it refreshes my memory in general and then my memories come back to me....................

l use vitamins...
fish oil
omega oil

l do puzzles/tests everyday to flex the little grey cells l make them difficult

I'm not very good at crossword puzzles my spelling is horrid. I may purchase one of those games that use color tabs you press but you have to remember the sequence I think that would help my short term memory better than anything.

My short term memory was getting so bad for a while I actually went to a neurologist and got examined and got an EEG and an MRI. Thankfully, I was just fine. Why did I get so serious about it? Well, my mom has Alzheimer's and so did her sister who has passed away. It scared the heck out of me. I'm not suggesting you should do what I did. We found out it was probably the meds and we reduced them. Now all is OK.

chess - makes you strategize and think several moves ahead

There are some books out there like crossword books, called "brain games". There are lots of simple exercises that graduate that are helpful and dont make you feel inadequate. Also just playing some online games can help. Anything that exercises your memory or cognitive skills that can be fun too.

I have some brain sharpening games for my Nintendo DS. Wow, you can tell when it's been awhile since you've been on there. It's great to find ways to work your brain.

My ex's paternal grandmother never used her noggin'. Didn't read, do puzzles, nada. She developed Alzheimer's and I'm not saying that's why. No one knows why people develop that.

His maternal grandmother read constantly, did puzzles and lived to be in her 90's with a mind as sharp as a tack. I think it helps.

Wow I found a real promising website called www.lumosity.com they have scientific brain games that are proven to help you grow brain cells. I think I have found exaclty what I need.. Yippeeeeee

They even have a place for people with mental problems they don't have bipolar but they have PTSD and well I suffer from that as well.

Do some research on brain food and supplements. I love the Dr. Oz show. http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/food-thought-literally

There used to be this puzzle in Dell vareity called Number Place. I loved it. Unfortunately Dell stopped it in the 90s. Well, a couple of years ago, I found it again under a new name: Suduko.

I also like hidden object games. I used to read and now I can't concentrate long enough to read a book all the way through. I think I've 20 books I've started and never finished.

Now that I'm back on seroquel (killed my memory the first time around) I have added fish oil pills to my regime and I think it's helped a lot this time. Things that I normally would forget I stop and go back for! Mind games help a lot too. I used to do word puzzles. too