My long term memory is really good, my immediate short term sometimes is really bad, i almost lose track or forget what i'm doing, like what did i just do with my keys, or things...

I have the same issue. It seems like my memory comes and goes. Lately, I've been trying to rmember y a certain street is a trigger, but I can't remember for the life of me. Anyway, everyday things can be difficult as well, like remembering to do certain tasks or even if I did them sometimes.

Hi my name is Sheryl , and yes i have had lots of memory loss or dissociation. i would wake up doing something and i didnt remember how i got there to a small degree . i dont have multiple personalities ,i just go somewhere else for a bit. which is what i did while the abuse was happening.

sheryl

I know exactly what you are talking about. I never remember what I said and did during an episode, even though people tell me I was conscious and interacting with them. Once I even picked up the phone and made a play date for my son and had absolutely no memory of doing so. I saw a pad by the phone where I had written the details. Yes, it's very bizarre. Makes sense because that's probably how I survived the abuse I suffered as a child -- going to a different place in my mind. But I must admit, coming back to the present and realizing that I'm totally confused is always hard for me. Please feel free to keep talking with me about this if you want. I really do understand.

Sometimes when this happens for me its like if I was really suppose to do something specific, forget it. It just wont happen. Sometimes it gets very frusturating because I just cant function. I lose days, hrs, just on one little trigger moment. For awhile I was doing chores, dishes, etc and now I'm starting to fall back into the lack of interest in anything. I remember not doing the dishes for over a yr.
It's almost like going into my own little world for a yr. During which if anyone or anything disrupts what I'm doing it will be lost to me. Sometimes I recognize when I do this due to a social anxiety situation. I will just go into my own little world. And if it gets interrupted, whatever I'm doing at the moment of interuption, I will forget what I'm doing. Like the interuption is trying to take me out of my world when I don't want to go. Then I get extremely bitchy and am no good to be around anyone at that point.

If any of that makes sense.

Yes, I too have troubles with memory. I always thought I just had a bad memory but now that I'm reading this thread, I wonder if it's a part of the PTSD. Hmmmm?

My memory loss is slightly different. I will come across a trigger and then spend the rest of the day having anxiety and panic attacks. When my husband asks me if something has happened to start the anxiety I won't be able to remember coming across the trigger until much later in the day and sometimes not until a couple of days later. Does anyone else get this sort of memory problem?

YUP!!! I get all triggered up anxiety ridden and have no idea why. Sometimes I'll remember it later sometimes I won't. I also have a real tough time putting dates to events. Like how old I was when such and such happened. I just can't remember chunks of my childhood. Any one else have issues with chronological thought sequencing?

Can totaly relate. I even get lost with dates and times of events that have happened in the past.

In axiety or panic attack Ive been asked to go to my computer and pull up a file.....I drew a freaking blank.,I was shaking...I knew where it was pulll that file everyday but my mind completely shut down and went in to disasociation. could not find a simple computer file.

i am wondering if this is the same thing as memory loss ar something else, as i look back to certain periods and episodes i now realize that i was triggered and in fight of flight mode at those times, now i was also able to function and do my job and do very well, not to brag but to make sense of what is being said here, if it was a long project like say a year, later i would find notes and drawings of some aspect of the job that i had given attention to, had to move on to something else, and then months later return to that specific task. i had faint recollection of starting that task or not even remembering i completed it , used to be weird to me, i also remember completing weeks of work and it was all foggy in my memory, but it was like i was running in auto pilot, the work was just done and i didnt seem like i was there. thoughts, i always thought i had a great memory anyway thats all.

The only memory loss I have is the first 10 years of my life; Other than that, I'd say the memory is a heck of a lot better. I don't have flashes of memories, or anything... it's all just gone. And I wish with all my might someone who has those keeps... just let me see the good times. OK?

The only memory problem I have is the first 10 years of my life. I have absolutely NO memory of any of those events.

I'd probably give someone my right arm for those memories, but I don't think that's going to be an offer anyone is going to take me up on. *sigh*

Sorry I posted twice.... I'm a newbie.

I get memory loss directly related to stress. Then if I get really stressed even after it is over with I can't remember half of what happened, but the parts that I do remember play over and over and over in mind and make it very hard to even be able focus or to think about anything else. It takes anywhere from a day to two weeks for me to get back to normal again depending on how bad the stress was, mine is almost always triggered by my husbands verbal abuse which used to be physical abuse as well. Or anyone else that is trying to argue with me or criticize me, blame me, take advantage of me etc.