Why Forgetfulness is Normal and How to Combat It: Insights and Solutions

I don’t think I remember anything. Anyone recognize themselves?

Disträ is the catchy name for a memory that is absolutely damn incompetent. At least when it comes to important things. For example, I forgot my last two mammogram appointments, even though I wrote them down. I booked new ones but still. Numbers are the worst though, I can’t even remember my husband’s mobile number after 20 years unless I really try. It ends at 17.

In my work, I have to email myself very quickly as soon as I come up with something, otherwise it’s gone. Sometimes I’m shy and think no, I remember that. Do I do it? Of course not. Many good ideas are lost that way. If I told you I would write about something and the post never appeared, you know why.

In our life, he is the person who organizes everything related to the children’s school supplies and gives teachers gifts and the like. When I want to joke about it, I call it the mother of the family, mostly to poke fun at my own incompetence in the field.

This is why you read Saturday’s column on Monday. I forgot to write it last Friday, even though it was on my list. Now, I’m not a complete slob, but I do remember a lot of things in life, like where I live, that I have kids and what day of the week it is, but sometimes you will be tired of yourself.

Menopause doesn’t help either, I can confirm, it’s like normal things in life are heightened now. If I’m tired I’m tired, if I’m irritable I’m nervous and my normal absent mind is showing itself as Alzheimer’s.

Although I shouldn’t joke about that because my grandmother Asta died of it in the 80s, at that time those who had become half-zombie had to live in long-term care until did the rest of the brain turn into slime. No help was available. Now it’s a little different, research has come a long way and people who are unlucky enough to get that diagnosis live longer than the four years she lived with the disease. However.

My husband usually says I’m not forgetful at all but I just don’t listen but it’s really like some things just go through the brain and out the other side. Things fall out, maybe through the ears? While my head is full of nonsense I can’t forget even if I try, what Charlotte Perelli’s baby is called or why Tom and Ariana broke up on Vanderpump Rules. Such things stick like glue.

For the rest of you forgetful people, however, I can bring you good news – depression is on the decline in the population, unlike what was thought just 20 years ago.

At the turn of the millennium, politicians were terribly worried that the big Orvar meat plug (those in their 40s) was expected to grow very old and so would the number of people with dementia who needed a lot care goes up. It didn’t happen and the reason is quite surprising – in just 30 years, 70-year-olds today have become like 50-year-olds back then. About almost everything.

People are not only living longer, they are healthy, energetic and modern for much longer. They eat well, exercise, keep their brains active and live very active lives, for a long time. Many work longer, or longer because retirement became boring.

There are probably more people in their 70s who have heard their parents whisper that they won’t have a hat and cane as pensioners but gym shoes and jeans. Incredibly stupid to hear when you’re a teenager, now I’m being passed by aunts and uncles on the path in pink functional clothes and caps. The researchers are puzzled, because depression has decreased and they don’t know why.

Today’s pensioners are more active than ever and will suffer less and less even if it happens, it usually happens later and later . Many pensioners do not move into retirement homes until they are 80, sometimes 90, and only the most scrupulous old people get a place. Old age is something completely different today than it was just 30 years ago.

Such poor memory, as you sometimes forget to do your work, doctor’s appointments and children’s days out, at least fortunately is rarely associated with early onset depression, but it is completely normal goldfish behavior. However, I don’t have good answers on how to cure it.