Arfa Daily wrote:
Many people now seem to suffer "short-term memory loss". People everywhere
joke about it. One of the games console makers have even brought out a
memory training game that they have been advertising on tv over here using
the TV presenter from "Millionaire". I know people who have never worked
with solder in their lives, or any form of lead come to that, who claim that
they can be thinking of something that they have to say, and by the time
they come to say it, it's gone ... Sound familiar ? This is reaching
epidemic proportions over here, so what's the cause ? Crap that they're
putting in the food ? The water ? Genetically modded oils that they are
cooking stuff in ? Much more worrying, I think, than lead from solder ...

I think it's a lot simpler than that. People try to do a lot more at
once than they used to. All that multi-tasking makes us absent-minded.

"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
Many people now seem to suffer "short-term memory loss". People
everywhere
joke about it. One of the games console makers have even brought out a
memory training game that they have been advertising on tv over here
using
the TV presenter from "Millionaire". I know people who have never worked
with solder in their lives, or any form of lead come to that, who claim
that
they can be thinking of something that they have to say, and by the time
they come to say it, it's gone ... Sound familiar ? This is reaching
epidemic proportions over here, so what's the cause ? Crap that they're
putting in the food ? The water ? Genetically modded oils that they are
cooking stuff in ? Much more worrying, I think, than lead from solder ...

I think it's a lot simpler than that. People try to do a lot more at
once than they used to. All that multi-tasking makes us absent-minded.

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 ...

Arfa

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.

"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
...
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

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:12:19 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:
"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
...
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. ...

Uh, what were we talking about? ;-)

If you were a pothead, you'd have learnt how to deal with short-term
memory loss. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" wrote in
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:12:19 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:
"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
...
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. ...

Uh, what were we talking about? ;-)

If you were a pothead, you'd have learnt how to deal with short-term
memory loss. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich


Hey Rich - perhaps that's it !! Errrm, what is ....??? What *were* we
talking about ...??? Oh yes. Perhaps there's so much pot smoking going on
now, that we're all suffering from second-hand smoke inhalation. Good theory
!! d;~]

Arfa

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:20:17 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:
"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" wrote in
message news
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:12:19 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:
"David Brodbeck" wrote in message
...
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. ...

Uh, what were we talking about? ;-)

If you were a pothead, you'd have learnt how to deal with short-term
memory loss. ;-)

Hey Rich - perhaps that's it !! Errrm, what is ....??? What *were* we
talking about ...??? Oh yes. Perhaps there's so much pot smoking going on
now, that we're all suffering from second-hand smoke inhalation. Good theory
!! d;~]


One of my campaign slogans is: "Marijuana is chemotherapy for the cancer
of big government!"

Cheers!
Rich

Arfa Daily wrote:
Hey Rich - perhaps that's it !! Errrm, what is ....??? What *were* we
talking about ...??? Oh yes. Perhaps there's so much pot smoking going on
now, that we're all suffering from second-hand smoke inhalation. Good theory
!! d;~]

Except then we wouldn't *care* if we could remember stuff.