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I had another psych eval yesterday. I thought I'd seen em all, but this was different. Instead of answering 600 mind twisting questions on a computer, I was directly talking to a person. I totally forgot about the ink blotch cards I had seen on movies before, so when he pulled those out, I started crackin up. I stared at those things for as long as I could, I don't know how people are supposed to see "things" in there. They just look like nothing but ink spilled on paper to me. So nothing really came out of it for me. The thing that scared me was the fact that he kept asking if I had some kind of head trauma in the past 3 years. He kept asking me these questions about memory that were very detailed and right on point. Like: do you sometimes forget your long time friends names? and just blank out? do you bump into doorways and furniture? (I showed him my bruises) do you ever walk away from your bag in a store forgetting that it's there? do you drop spoons or other silver ware while using them? do have trouble using small motor skills? Of course I answered yes to all of them and many more and he asked for examples for each too. I'm nervous about the results now. What do you think he was getting at?
These questions he asked you, doesn't have to be about head trauma. Fibro has "forgetting" symptoms, we all joke about it and even normal, average people blank out with names and stuff. I bump into stuff ALL the time, I remember someone posting a thread about that (yesterday, was it?). I don't have a very good awareness of my body, and that can be explained by spending a lot of time dissociating and not being very athletic. It doesn't have to be about "motor skills", there's actually a name for the lack of body awareness and dimensions but I forgot it. With insomnia, forget it. You take a drug and that makes you loopy--you bump into things, drop silverware because you think that your grip is tight enough, etc. You don't take a drug then you're still loopy from the lack of sleep!
My point is that these questions and tests can certainly point out head trauma or "craziness" but it doesn't look at the whole picture. Sure, in some people, forgetting things could be about something psychological, but it's also a symptom of fibro and insomnia. I wouldn't worry about it because these tests fail to differentiate what the symptom is from.