I am having a VERY hard time with my memory problem. I'm replying 4 years later so I'm pretty sure you won't get this. But I had a few accidental overdoses and now my memory is fucked. It's very frustrating. It's actually horrible! I can't go to school to make a life for myself. I can't remember names, can't remember facts or faces or what I'm supposed to be doing ten seconds after I went to do it! My brain also suffered more than just a memory problem after the couple incidences. There are exercises you can't do so don't lose hope. It will be VERY hard though. I haven't started the exercises yet. But I will in the near future...hopefully. Don't lose hope!

I've had memory problems and absent mindedness for a long time, and I recently found out that both are "cognitive symptoms" of my schizophrenia, alongside positive symptoms and negative symptoms. It's not completely because of me, but I wouldn't have so many issues with my dad if not for my absent mindedness. He literally thought for years that I didn't care, when he told me to do something, and that I was being defiant. Never mind that my mom's the same way, though (I'm not biologically related to him). I've been called stupid by teachers and students, throughout elementary school, too, which was bad, but it developed a need to be the best I can be. I'm actually quite intelligent, so they say. I had to take an IQ test when I was a kid. I scored "borderline" on the memory portions, which is below "low average", and might actually be considered legally retarded, and I scored "very superior" on the rest, which is as high as you can go. Not that it says too much. My girlfriend's mom has an IQ of 140, which is frustrating, because she seems retarded to me. If not for my empathy and love and sacrifices for others, I would appear to have narcissistic personality disorder, all because of my absent mindedness. Now, I'm completely at peace with it. Probably because I'm so narcissistic. My girlfriend would yell at me a lot for not remembering certain things, but I've always said that accidents aren't worthy of anger, including hers. It's been a little over a year since we started dating--four years since we've been friends--and she seems to be at peace with it, too.