Memory Loss with Bipolar Disorder

All the time it's sucks. So I write down important stuff I need to remember. 🤗

Omfg YES!! Thank you so much for saying something!!!! 🙌 🙌 🙌

Yes! The episodes themselves, switching between them, the strain of medication, and the anxiety that comes with all of these can interrupt short and long term memory. It can come and go, too, though.

Absolutely! There’s about a six month period that I can hardly recall. I often have trouble remembering what happened when. Honestly I think the pandemic made a lot of those problems worse. I felt much more alone and when I spend too much time in my head I forget what’s happening around me.

me me me me me!!!! it’s the fucking WORST

I have dissociative amnesia and adhd. My memory is poop. I've never heard of memory issues related to bipolar disorder though.

I thought I was alone here and wasn’t sure it was Bipolar related but glad to know I’m not alone 🙌

My memory has been super bad with having bipolar disorder and adhd. It got worse when I got on meds

Yeah the days always seem to blend together it’s like you drift in and out of reality and lose your memory as you do

yes!!!! i have a horrible memory and but on the plus side, i easily forget all of my trauma

yes! idk if it’s the bipolar or the depression but my memory is so so bad

Oh absolutely, but oddly enough my memory will sometimes recover? When I’m having a depressive episode I forget things all the time, I’ll have friends say “remember this..” and I’ll have no recollection at all, or I’ll constantly zone out and forget what I was doing or saying, and the things that have helped me the most have been journaling and making lots of lists, i’d recommend giving that a try and see if that helps in the short term and you might have some long term memories come back with time

i do, but it's more as part of borderline than bipolar... borderline has dissociation as one of its symptoms after all. you might check that out and see if you think it fits you... might be a good thing to bring up to a mental health professional if so. even if not, you should mention the memory loss. it's most likely dissociation and i experience it the same way as you described in your reply to anon