Event 1: I once went camping with my friends. A few days later, my friends started chatting again, and I forgot. I remember camping, but which friends went? How did you get there? Which way did you go? I can't remember where to camp, it's completely blank.
Event 2: A sister made an appointment to go to her house for lunch the next night, and I forgot all about it the next day. My sister called to ask when I would arrive, but I don't remember. I looked puzzled and asked her what it was!
Event 3: I forgot who I am, what my name is and where I am. I'm in the bedroom. I'm very scared, very, very scared, very, very desperate.
These three things are gradual, and the last one is when you are seriously ill. The point is that you don't know what's wrong with you. Of course, there are more than three events with poor memory, but these three events are typical!
Later, I finally knew that I had depression and went to the hospital for half a month. The situation was effectively controlled and improved! Now I am mild. Although my memory is not very good, I feel normal.
Whether it is new or old, my memory will soon fade away. I was depressed in junior high school. When I was a freshman, I didn't remember anything about junior high school except people or things that had a great influence on my life. After taking medicine in the later period, the memory declines more obviously, and it is out of personal control and can't study normally (compared with when the brain is good).
In fact, I really don't want to admit that I have depression, but later I found out on the Internet that I actually have many symptoms of depression, that is, poor memory. I am a self-employed, and I will send the bill to collect the money immediately. As soon as I turned my head, I forgot whether I collected money or not. Big head. Often offend customers. The calculated weight of the goods will be collected immediately and forgotten immediately. It's like the brain is a smooth whiteboard. If you throw something, it won't hang up.
The memory of depressed patients will indeed decline, but generally there will be no serious forgetfulness like dementia patients, unless the cognitive impairment of depressed patients who have not been treated for a long time is getting worse and the age of depressed patients is increasing. When they reach the age of 60, or even 65, senile depression may turn into Alzheimer's disease.
Cognitive impairment is common in patients with depression, especially in recent memory. Many patients with depression will mention that they always forget everything when they come to the clinic. In fact, this includes inattention, memory storage and copying ability, which is why they always can't remember recent events, forget things, forget things. Sometimes it is even mistaken for dementia, but in fact, the memory decline of patients with depression is directly proportional to the severity of depression. After the depressive symptoms are relieved, the memory will be restored, which is essentially different from the real dementia.
So how serious will the memory damage of depression be?
I once met a 58-year-old man with depression. The main reason why her family brought her to the hospital was that at the age of 58, she had some symptoms of dementia, and she was often distressed, even pessimistic, crying and blaming herself because she couldn't find what she had put. Because the emotional symptoms are different from those of Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, I still consider the diagnosis of "depression" and "Alzheimer's Harmo's disease", but after a period of antidepressant treatment, the patient's memory and emotions have obviously recovered, and I can repeat the three meals of the previous day and what I do every day. The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be ruled out because the depressive symptoms are obviously relieved and the memory is obviously restored. However, due to the patient's age, her memory may not be fully recovered, and it is very likely that she will reach the diagnostic criteria of real Alzheimer's disease with further increase of age. In medical research, it has also been fully affirmed that more than 50% of elderly patients with depression (over 65 years old) will develop Alzheimer's disease.
Active medication will definitely improve emotional symptoms and cognitive symptoms, so going to the hospital for professional antidepressant treatment as soon as possible, taking the medicine according to the doctor's advice, and not arbitrarily reducing the medicine and stopping taking the medicine will definitely help you recover your memory damage.
In addition, if cognitive impairment, such as memory loss, depression symptoms do not recover well after remission, or recovery is slow, corresponding rehabilitation training can be carried out. Some communities in Beishangguang have rehabilitation training centers with this cognitive function, which can carry out daily rehabilitation training to help patients gradually recover their memory and other work-related dysfunction.
I hope my introduction can help you understand the cognitive dysfunction of depression and the recent memory loss of depression. Generally, the memory of patients with depression can be completely restored after the symptoms of depression are completely relieved. Therefore, if depressed patients with memory loss symptoms, they should go to a psychiatric hospital as soon as possible. After the treatment of depression, their memory can be restored to the greatest extent.
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We all know depression, because it has become the second largest disease that threatens human health in the world after cancer [1]. There are 380 million depressive patients in the world, and there are nearly 1 100 million depressive patients in China. It can be said that according to this figure, for every 15 people around us, there is probably one person with depression. The memory of depression mostly stays on emotional symptoms such as depression, lack of interest, dislike of social activities and so on. However, there are many depressed patients with slow brain response and obvious memory loss, especially the loss of instantaneous memory will seriously affect their daily life, and their attention is often inattentive and they often sit in a daze. I like to call this kind of performance a kind of "untied loneliness".
What we call depressed patients' slow response, poor memory and inattention can actually be attributed to cognitive dysfunction. About two-thirds of patients with depression may have cognitive impairment, especially in the first case, 26% patients have serious cognitive impairment [2], which can be said that the social function of patients has been greatly damaged.
There are different opinions about the source of this cognitive disorder. At present, the mainstream influencing factors are monoamine neurotransmitters, brain-derived neural factors and negative automatic thinking about depression in psychology [3]. I personally agree with monoamine neurotransmitters.
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In western theory, patients with depression suffer from memory loss and insomnia, and they are used to treating it as a physiological disease by taking medicine. It's similar in China. Real depressed patients have been sent to mental hospitals by their families for a long time.
In fact, the cases we contacted, as well as the depression mentioned by the people, including those who came to consult us. Not depressed, just prone to depression. It has not been hit by any natural or man-made disasters, and it needs crisis intervention. The gap between middle-aged people and their peers has widened. In short, normal people have encountered abnormal problems. I don't think this so-called depression will cause poor memory. Generally speaking, the belief is very firm and stubborn. They always struggle with themselves in their hearts. And I am like a movie, constantly remembering everything, sometimes arrogant, sometimes inferior. In this respect, their memory is much better than ours, and they will never forget their worries, such as their own advantages and their own excuses.
Said they had a bad memory. It's because other people's things, or most things that I think have nothing to do with myself, I don't pay attention to them at all, and I can't remember them if I don't pay attention to them.
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Depression can lead to memory loss or neurasthenia.
Simply put, when you are depressed, some of your emotions are isolated, so the number of emotions in the brain control room is much less, and even fewer memory balls can be produced. Then, your core memory disappears, and the personality island related to the core memory ball collapses. In the long-term memory area, a large number of memory balls are ashed and thrown into the abyss of forgetting.
It is not until you restore and rebuild a new core memory and personality island that it is difficult to find what collapsed in the past and fall into the abyss of forgetting.
To put it another way, when depression strikes, the whole brain is in a state of insufficient supply. Just satisfying daily life and repairing damaged brain areas will basically use up all the energy consumed, leaving no more energy for long-term memory. Naturally, many short-term or instantaneous memories cannot be transferred to the long-term memory area, so they cannot be recalled.
Why does the brain have insufficient blood supply when depression attacks? On the one hand, it is due to insufficient intake (loss of appetite and sleep disorder affect brain function), and on the other hand, it is due to problems in the working state of the brain itself, and the pathway of neuroactive substances is blocked or interrupted, which makes it impossible to work normally.
But the good news is that if your depression has been basically cured, your memory will gradually recover through strengthening exercise and brain activity training. But the forgotten part of the memory may never be recalled. You can only remember things from now on.
Considering that the memory left by depression is usually not so pleasant, it is a good way to forget it.
People with depression will feel "stupid", which is a normal feeling. Because depression will affect people's cognitive functions, such as memory, attention and logical thinking ability. People with depression often feel forgetful, and when they turn around, they forget what they just wanted to do, so they can't complete tasks that require high concentration, such as driving and aerial work. Generally, the cognitive function of patients with depression will basically return to normal after their illness is controlled and relieved.
With the development of society and science and technology, modern people's mental health needs social attention, and mental diseases also tend to be younger. These problems are easily overlooked. Whether you are yourself or people around you, if such a situation occurs, you must seek medical treatment in time and find professional doctors and medical institutions for diagnosis.
In addition to the daily physical examination, you need to have regular psychological examination.
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Many people with depression often complain about short-term or even long-term memory loss. This may mean that they forget the information they have just read, what they have just done or what they have been told.
Depression and memory disorder can affect a person's daily life, including performance at work and family relationships.
Causes of memory loss in patients with depression
No one knows exactly why depression leads to memory loss, but some theories have surfaced.
In the past few decades, people think that people with depression have memory disorders because of age, mental illness or because they have no motivation to remember something (because depression can also lead to lack of motivation).
However, most of these theories have been abandoned now, because we know more about the specificity of cognitive defects and depression in the brain.
It is now known that depression can actually lead to memory impairment. With more modern research, it is found that the part of the brain related to memory is damaged in depression. It is also known that some parts of the brain of patients with depression will shrink, which may lead to cognitive impairment and memory problems.
Attention deficit and persistent attention deficit (depression is also common) may also affect memory.
Some drugs used to treat depression may also have side effects of memory impairment. In addition, drug and alcohol abuse may lead to or worsen memory.
Effects of depression and memory loss
Depression and memory impairment may affect people in many ways. For example:
Forget the specific words you want to use.
Forget yesterday's conversation.
Forget the content of the book you read recently.
Have difficulty in "working memory" (when something needs to be written down)
I can't remember the specific details about your past.
Everyday affairs and skills will not be forgotten, but verbal memory may be particularly affected by depression.
Memory impairment can occur at different ages, but it is often more serious in the elderly. Depression and memory loss in the elderly may sometimes be overlooked by doctors, because memory loss is also a symptom of Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers from Brigham Young University published their findings in the journal Behavioral Brain Research. The more depressed people are, the more difficult it is to distinguish similar experiences they have had.
In this study, the researchers conducted a computer-aided memory test on a group of participants who developed depressive symptoms but did not receive medication.
The test requires participants to watch a series of objects on a computer screen. For each object, ask participants to answer yes or no:
Have they seen this object (old) before the test?
Have they seen anything similar?
Have they never seen such a thing before (new)
The results show that patients with depression can completely distinguish between old and new objects.
However, when the object they saw was similar to the object they had seen before, the most common answer of participants was that they had seen the object before.
Brock Cowen, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, said: "People with depression don't have amnesia, they just miss the details."
Professor Kirwan pointed out that this study also provides clues about what happens in the brains of patients with depression:
"There are two areas in the brain that can cultivate new brain cells, one of which is the hippocampus, which involves memory. It turns out that this growth will decrease in depression. "
Hello, depression is a mental cold. This is a mental illness. Always very depressed, can't see their own advantages, can't see the beauty of life. Depression is common to everyone, but it doesn't mean you will get it. I suggest you calm down, don't label yourself at will, face up to any trouble, solve the problem reasonably, go out for a walk and chat with people more, so that people will be active.