"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
Would that it were that simple an analysis. It is not a case of being
absent
minded. It is genuine short term memory loss. If you don't understand
what
it is that I am talking about, then I reckon that you are lucky enough
not
to suffer from it ...

Well, I'm not saying you aren't suffering from something real. But I
think a lot of people are simply trying to do too much at once. I also
think there's a lot of mental hypochondria in our society. I know a lot
of people who fret about age-related memory loss every time they forget
where they put their car keys, when in reality they were forgetting
where their car keys were in when they were in their 20s, too. It's
just once people get old they start to worry it's a sign of some kind of
disease.

Yes, I live a busy life, and yes, I usually have a lot going on in my head,
and yes, I'm no longer a kid, but it's not a case of things like putting
down your car keys and then forgetting where. I can be in conversation with
someone, and be prompted for something I've got to say when it comes back to
me to speak, and zap! pow! it's gone, just like it was never there in the
first place, but the annoying thing is I know that it was. My wife has just
the same thing. Even my kids to a lesser extent ( 23, 21 and 20 ) Based on
this, I would think, as you probably do, that either we are all going
doolally, or being poisoned by something in the house, but I have many
friends who seem to have identical problems. The phrase " oh it's just short
term memory loss ! " comes up from people again and again, but I don't
recall the problem being like this not so many years ago ( that's long term
memory, and we are all just as sharp at that as we ever were ). My mother
who is in her 80s doesn't seem to have the problem, but understands what it
is, and says that she has no recollection of it existing in the past.

Maybe it is just a modern " pressures of life " thing, but it doesn't 'feel'
like it somehow, and if it's not, are we just the first generation of some
as yet unidentified cumulative food-packaging poisoning or some such, that's
only gonna get worse ??

Are those people that you know who " fret " about age related memory loss
really doing just that, or are they actually suffering something real that
they too can feel to not be just general absent minded-ism which of course
we do all suffer from sometimes ?

Arfa