#memory & cognition

[plague-parade]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how distressing and disturbing memory loss issues are. forgetting what you were talking about halfway through a sentence, putting something down and instantly forgetting where you put it. having to reread one paragraph over and over again because by the time youve moved onto the next sentence you dont remember what the one before it said. always doubting if your memories of things are real, not being able to remember important life events.

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

“i forgot” is treated like a lazy excuse when it’s genuinely such a big issue for so many people.

#this has been building up in me for a bit #i was talking to my mom and she brought up a concert we went to and i have zero memory of ever going #huge chunks of my life are just. gone. #every time i sew i put the needle down and spend fifteen minutes trying to find it #memory loss #memory issues #cognitive issues #cognitive decline #cognitive dysfunction

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd) #because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

[tangledinink]

So.... Wait, I'm thinking Donnie may have perhaps confused Odette and Othello together, and because he was responding to it, it triggered something? Just a hunch.

i love it when you guys are right, it's fun.

swanatello.

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#yeah! swannie is the treasure #kind of #but only because #really #odette is #swanatello #rottmnt #rottmnt au #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt fanart #tmnt #tmnt 2018 #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt comic #donniesona #fidgetwing #comic #now are those false memories and other cognitive changes kind of starting to make sense...?

[externalmemorycomic]

Image description: a five page comic with messy writing and messy line drawings coloured with gouache. Each page has four panels and each panel has a caption and an image. Page one Caption: Mouse and Ruth go for drives a lot. Image: a red car drives down a country road. Caption: to stores and beaches and the dump where you can find cool things. Image: a white mouse looks up at a wall with doll’s heads nailed to it, labeled “wall of dolls”. Caption: I almost never join. Ruth asks, “isn’t My going stir crazy?” Image: a deer is driving a car, and the mouse sits on a pile of pillows on the passenger’s seat. Caption: but I’m so used to this I forget there’s anything to go crazy about Image: an orange cat lies in bed.

Page two Caption: When we lived in Malmö there were weeks I didn’t leave the apartment Image: the cat peeks out a window, looking at a pigeon that’s pooping on the window ledge. Caption: months I didn’t see anyone besides Mouse. I just couldn’t manage the stairs Image: the cat looks down an exaggerated, maze-like staircase. Caption: Mouse wasn’t much better off. I took up indoor “gardening” so we wouldn’t miss nature too much. Of course I often couldn’t water the plants. It felt bitter and symbolic when they died Image: the cat is in a different bed, looking at a house plant on a side table that’s beginning to wilt. Caption: here there’s no stairs and I have plants and bees right outside my window Image: the cat is in the first bed, drawing a comic. There’s a flower, a butterfly and a bee outside the window behind it.

Page three Caption: people tend to get frustrated with my acceptance Image: the cat takes down a half finished painting from an easel. Caption: even after we’ve talked a lot about my illness, they think I should plan ahead as if a cure is right around the corner Image: a rabbit is standing beside a table covered in unfinished canvases, looking at  one of them. The cat stands behind them, looking nervous. Caption: often it’s the same people who respond to tragedies you CAN fix by saying “life’s not fair” Image: the cat is rescuing bugs from drowning in a water barrel and the rabbit looks over its shoulder, looking annoyed. Caption: but when I let go of what I can’t have, they see it as defeat. Image: the cat is curled up and hiding in bed while the rabbit stands over them, frowning, holding the unfinished painting and waving two paintbrushes.

Page four Caption: I understand the impulse to say “maybe some day”. When it’s kindly meant, I value the intention. Image: The rabbit has its arm around the cat’s shoulder and waves towards a thought bubble. In the thought bubble the cat is floating and happy at the end of a rainbow with pink clouds, flowers and a smiling sky in the background. Caption: but few things are more dangerous to my soul than “maybe some day” Image: the cat huddles on the ground and hides its face. Right above the cat, as if pushing down, is a bigger thought bubble with images of the cat looking happy - dancing, being held, proudly painting, holding a baby. Caption: There is no greater wisdom in life than: fix what you can and accept what you can’t. Image: the thought bubble is breaking up and shrinking. The cat is sitting up, smiling at a dandelion beside it. Caption: some times, giving up isn’t just the only way to survive but to thrive, and leave room for joy. Image: The half finished canvases are burning on the ground and the cat walks away without looking back.

Page five Caption: today I’m sad because I’m in pain and I miss moving and doing Image: the cat is crying in bed. Caption: but when I thank God for giving me this life filled with blessings, it’s from the heart. Image: the cat wipes away some tears and looks a little happier. Caption: I am happy more often than not. I mostly cry from gratitude. There is no contradiction Image: the cat closes its eyes and is surrounded by a pink glow and red cartoon hearts. Caption: life will ask me to let go of much bigger things and maybe I can come with to the dump next time Image: the cat looks at the wall of dolls and says: “cool!” End ID. Here's some disability thoughts I had during my latest flare (hence the wobblier-than-usual lines and messy writing). I hope it makes sense even if I was pretty confused when I made it! I have POTS and ME/CFS, as well as ADHD and being autistic. Accepting the reality of being bed/housebound and hard-of-thinking often is going to be a life long effort but I'm getting there. Happy disability pride month!!! Reblogs are much appreciated! (if you wanna help me live and stuff and make more art and comics I have a Patreon. I post comic pages there on average once a day for the 3€ tier as well as other fun things! Link in my pinned post)

#comic #comics #original comic #web comic #webcomic #diary comic #slice of life #autobiographical comics #journal comics #comic artists on tumblr #external memory comic #slice of life comic #disability #disability pride #physical disability #cognitive disability #actually disabled #disabled art #me cfs #pots #myalgic encephalomyelitis #Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #described

[otaku553]

Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)

#one piece #sabo #king sabo au #I wonder sometimes if I keep thinking about this au because i like putting my blorbo through crushing existential nightmares #something something. it must feel so wrong to him. to be born like this and know that he’s not suppose to be there #but not having the memories of times in the wild with his brothers to contextualize why he feels wrong or where he’s supposed to be instead #directionless. knowing that he has to exist for some reason but not the reason that everyone around him tells him he should exist for #and continuing to try to bridge the cognitive dissonance through fallacy after fallacy until he is in too deep to escape #anyways. thinking about Him #Him is the academia mentality of ‘just keep going and you’ll eventually reach the light at the end of the tunnel’ #‘because you’ve tried so hard to get here and surely you must belong here because you’re so academically highly-achieving’ #does that make sense? maybe the parallel is a bit of a reach. I could write an essay about it tbh #I love this au lmao it’s both a lot of projecting and a great chance to be like ‘god I can make him so much worse’

[reasonsforhope]

"Caring for a pet helps stave off cognitive decline for people over 50 who live on their own, according to a new study of almost 8,000 participants.

Researchers found that pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline in verbal memory and verbal fluency among the older adults who were living alone.

The study included 7,945 mostly-white British participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with an average age of 66.

Followed over an eight year period, more than a third of the group (35.1 percent) owned pets; about 30% of the group lived alone.

Previous studies suggested that solitary living is a risk factor for developing dementia and cognitive decline, but among those folks, raising dogs or cats was related to reduced loneliness.

Some research has found that pet ownership is associated with better verbal memory and executive function, but others failed to find any evidence.

The new research published in JAMA Network aimed to further explore the association between aging by oneself—a trend which has been on the rise over the past few decades—and pet ownership. And the results were clear.

“Pet ownership offset the associations between living alone and declining rates in verbal memory and verbal fluency,” said study corresponding author Professor Ciyong Lu, of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

It was “a significant modifier” in all 3 associations—composite verbal cognition, verbal memory, and verbal fluency.

“Pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline among older adults living alone.”

But owning a cat or dog did not make any difference for older people who lived with other people.

“These findings suggest that pet ownership may be associated with slower cognitive decline among older adults living alone.”

Prof. Lu is now calling for clinical trials that could help inform public health measures to address dementia among the elderly."

-via Good News Network, November 30, 2023

#dementia #alzheimers #neurology #neuroscience #medical news #aging #cognitive functions #psychology #healthcare #memory #united kingdom #uk #good news #hope

[funeral]

We experience events in association with an ongoing story about who we are, in which we struggle to achieve coherence and continuity rather than objective truth. Similarly, our memories do not consist of snapshots of our experiences; rather, we store our experiences in memory in connection with a web of associations that is consistent with our narrative. Further, each time we store or recall an event, we invoke and reconstruct ("re-member") not an isolated occurrence but the entire web of associations: our story. This storytelling is central to the protean self's capacity to shift shape while sustaining its inner form.

Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs, Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia

#psychology #cognitive psychology #memory #quotes #excerpts #p

[alwaysbewoke]

side-eyeing all the anti-vaccine, anti-masks, "get back to normal," "the kids will be fine" fucktwats hella hard right now. fuck everyone one of you.

#COVID #brain health #cognitive deficits #memory problems #brain inflammation #brain aging #brain volume #brain structure #COVID-19 #SARS-CoV-2 #long COVID #brain damage #dementia #autopsies #respiratory virus

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Walter Kintsch - Memory and Cognition - John Wiley & Sons - 1977

#witches #cognitors #occult #vintage #memory and cognition #john wiley & sons #walter kintsch #1977 #memory #cognition

[bittersweetresilience]

i desperately need to be able to save scum real life. let me save before i nap and then reload if i have bad rng and oversleep

#sleep improves memory concentration and cognition and lowers cortisol and inflammation so if it's balanced appropriately with study time #it would give me more of a stat boost than the equivalent amount of cramming #but the threat of oversleeping is too scary. hate this.

[reddiamondyeet]

I hate people who can't be normal about other people's memory issues so so much.

#red rants #“oh if your memory is that bad then you have cognitive problems. and you can't have cognitive problems with how smart you are #so clearly you don't have memory problems and you're just a liar.” #Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck

[small-spark-of-light]

heres some thoughts on Infectat from evadare!! i dont think he can talk, so he uses sign language :0

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #evadare #infectat #jacko #his clothing looks a lot like a military uniform #and since he was brought by Jacko to help get Rafe i figured hes a sailor #who ended up dying and coming back due to the infection #idk what caused the massive crater in the side of his head #i think he was hit with a canon ball :0 like it hit him from his front/back and went through #Agatha gives him potions and medicines to keep from decaying and to keep the infection from progressing #there are plenty of other infected #but hes the only one to keep his cognitive functions and what not #he doesnt remember much of when he was alive other than some vague memories of the war and the people he cared for #he doesnt remember his own name ;A; #sparks creations

[bebsi-cola]

honestly the new take off of "mental disabilities" in opposition to physical disabilities is actually counter-productive and reinforces mind-body dualism. disability categories are more complicated than just "mental" for a reason, such as neurological disorders which are very often understood to be either/or both. also completely homogenises fairly different disabilities and experiences solely to posit them in opposition to physical disabilities. like ID/IDD (what "mental disability" would traditionally mean) are different from neurodevelopmental disorders are different from mental illness etc. and it's not particularly clear cut. people can choose to consider ID as part of the wider range of developmental disabilities which include neurodevelopmental disabilities and more, but they are also categorised alongside things like leaning difficulty, ABI, or neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimer's or dementia when discussing cognitive disability. now it is incredibly unclear what people here mean when they are saying "mental disabilities" because of the previous conventional use and because of how vague and ill-defined it is as a category. ND was an okay term to cover multiple kinds of mind related disabilities, although it doesn't cover all, it is more understanding to list the disabilities one means. it also helps to clarify because of neurological disorders, some of which more or less affect cognitive abilities as well as physical abilities

#bebsi posting #disability #chronic illness #personally for example #i have migraine which is a neurological condition #autism which counts as neurodevelopmental disability #and physical disabilities #i would not actually classify my migraine as one or the other #as they cause both chronic pain and cognitive difficulties #such as memory difficulty and brain fog as such #and honestly i wouldn't know where to put such symptoms as photosensitivity #which occur because of my autism as well

[sassypotatoe1]

Today's medical paranoia game: is it early onset Alzheimers disease or just my adhd?

Hint: working memory and decision making is equally impacted in patients with adhd and patients with mildly progressed dementia.

Answer: it's my adhd and I need to partake in more frequent physical activity.

Anxiety's answer: you have Alzheimers you're going to wet yourself you'll get lost driving home you'll forget your own name you'll die you'll die you'll die this is not actually true but countering these thoughts are proving difficult

#paranoia #Medical paranoia #medical anxiety #Mental health #cognitive functions #neurology #neurodivergent #adhdlife #living with adhd #adhd things #working memory #decisionmaking

[intelligentchristianlady]

Just read the bullet points. Get vaccinated and wear the damn mask!

#COVID-19 #COVID affects the brain #memory problems #cognitive deficits #brain shrinkage #increased risk of dementia #get vaccinated #wear the mask

[im-a-freaking-joy]

I honestly. Love the way that the phrase "friendship is magic" is approached in the mlp universe. Like it *literally is* just like conjuration or divination might be. It's the magic that controls the homeostasis of the universe at large, and is therefore arguably the most powerful and important whilst also being the most mundane. If the friendship and comraderia is at a high level, things that are a given constant stay. Well. Constant. If the animosity and hatred is too high those constants?? GO AWAY. magic isn't always as reliable, food stops growing, the weather is no longer controllable? Imagine if we had too many wars going on earth and suddenly things like that stopped happening. Friendship literally is what makes the ponies in mlp. Well. Magical. Without friendship they would be just like regular horses.

#im thinking about this #idk why #now im having a spiritual crisis over my little ponu #perhaps friendship and kidness make us what we are #after all didnt they discover that early homosapiens would heal the sick and tend to the elderly? #Doesnt our sense of universal comraderie keep us well? #I think I read once that memory issues arise and other cognitive functions decline when youre touch starved #dont quote me on that #but isnt that neat too? the magic of story? #I probably heard that somewhere #and that means somebody told it to me #without the friendship of wanting to share your knowledge we wouldnt learn nearly as much #wed only know. what we know. #loquacious leaves