I understand completely....I will walk into a room to do a specific task and have no clue why I am there....will start a project and just cannot figure out the first step... find it frustrating as well. pre-tbi I had a memory like a steel trap!

Hang in there friend...you are not alone.

Hugs

I wrestle with that every day. I've done lots of reading about 'executive function' which is where you make decisions, and for me keep that working-memory that takes stuff in and organizes it. Yeah, rae, sometimes, often.. i go to another room to get something, forget it, and have to go back to 1st room to remember, repeat.. lol.. i guess if at first you don't succeed, try try again :)

This happens to me to. My OT had me repeat what I was going to get in another room to see if that helped. Sometimes it did, and others it did not. And just like Rae, I can't complete projects if the steps are not written down and easy. I get frustrated easily as too because I used to have a really good memory and was a good problem solver. I now carry paper with me everywhere I go to write down everything. It is a good plan, if I remember I have the paper!!

I'm with ya, and everyone else on here, jedoispartir. I find that it comes & goes. I was doing really well, and then I had a bout where I was confused. Ended up in a gas station, didn't know where I was. Lovely.

It must be brain fluctuations or something. I know it's stressful when it happens, cause I had one of those so recently.

(hugs to you)

Elanie

I am having all new problems at work now....we are going into the age of electronic contracting. I have been doing my job the same way for the past 10 years, and now it's not just being tweaked, but over hauled! YIKES! I feel like an absolute idiot as everyone else is catching on and I am so lost...I am trying to keep up appearances that I am moving along, but it is sooooo difficult! On top of my BI (which everyone forgets) I am the oldest person in the office by at least 20 years...so now I am just the "stupid slow old lady" among these kids...talk about fucking (excuse me, but it's how I feel) depressing....

Yeah I also find it comes and goes but I also find constantly writing things down helps me. Annoying yes but after awhile you get used to it and don't even think about it.
Have a little note book or some post its close by ou at all times and then when you think of something that you have t do no matter what it is big or small scribble it down. Leave the note somewhere where you can check it and as soon as you have done the job throw away the note.
Some notes might be for next week or later on and some for straight away but i find it helps me even though my memory has never been so bad, I do get muddled up and i find having things written down helps keep me more organised and efficient.
give it a try.
I can give you an example. I have recently been on holiday but before i went I stuck a post it note to my front door and for a few days before every time I thought of something I had to bring with me or do before i went I wrote it down.
So when it was time to leave I had quite a list to check off but I got everything done and had a nice time.
I also have another note stuck to my front door to check that the oven is off and even when I haven't used it now I go back and check it is off. All these little habits help I find.
Good luck

I hear you . My kids will open the microwave and see what I wanted to eat last night. It is like things will just fall out of my head

i cant cope with more than one thing at a time quite often. Just cant. used to multi task no problem at all before. And also return to other room to try and remember what it was I was going to do. used to stress about it, just made it worse. At least our lives are not boring. Can always expect the unexpected. thats ok us thinking that, but I find it stings when others say that, just dont let on to them. They havent walked in our shoes to understand, pray they never do. At least we understand what it is really like in this group.

I often experience that where being in one room I have an idea in mind of what to do somewhere else, get there and completely forget why I am in this other room. Very frustrating.

I just had an accident on Seotember 9 so this is all new to me. I had the kind of long term memory that I would put up against the finest,but I will admit that my short term was not the greatest since childhood. But now, my long term is still good, but I have paralysis and I cant remember things that even my 80 year old parents can reatain. But yet I know I am smart so I get so frustrated. Any suggestions on what to do other than the obvious, which is to write everything down?

Hi, I was new to all this until my accident left me with paralysis and TBI of which I am still learning how to deal with. I forget what I am going to say on the phone if I am on hold too long, I can't do my own taxes and I worked in accounting for years, I can't recall names of people I worked with or streets, or what I was playing in a game of Clue and the family has to start the round over.

I am so confused all the time-when does that end? I have a pad of paper by my bed to wrie the date e/day and some daily notes. highlights,appointments, etc, but the littlest thing will trip me up and yet I'm smart. I was very smart before the accident -but now I easily get confused. When will this end and does it?

I think we find ways of coping, and that does help. its strange the things we do remember. As a friend said to me several years ago, you have trouble with your memory since your head injury, yet you can remember the names of flowers and other things. Seems we dont get a choice, maybe it has something to do with just where we were hurt.
But even though I miss the independence of driving, know I did the right thing handing my drivers license back.

I have da same ding used ta b mild but know dat i got tbi rememberin any ding iz hard sum times i even for get were i am or who i am sum times it comes bk ta me an odr times i wait when sum one says my name i den now who i am but itz reay scary not nowin who or were u r im good at hiden it i just keep my mouth shut an try not show i have no idea who dez peeps r or y dey just dont leve me alone