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forgetful
I am 48 and work in a large company. I am a head of one of the services. The job is very stressful and tiring. We are overwhelmed with work, and we need to care about deadlines. I handle a great number of information which are mostly numbers. The problem is that I became very forgetful. For example: I plan to do a certain task but at the end of the day I suddenly realize that I haven’t done it! Employees in my department believe that something is wrong with me. At first I attributed everything to stress and large quantity of information, but now I am concerned about my mental health and what is going on with my memory.
Psychologist's answer
The memorising ability weakens with age, but it maight be affected by the manner of life too. People like you, who are exposed to everyday stress, usually forget some less important things. Your brain „decides“ what to delete from its memory in order to be able to remember some more important information. For example, If you have five tasks to do at the same time, which are all important and urgent, you will easily remember the one that your brain registers as the most important and most urgent, and you will finish it first. After that, there comes the second important task, then the third... But before the end of the day, after being a little relaxed, you suddenly find out that you still have some tasks unfinished... Your problem certainly lies in continuous exposure to stress which results in forgeting things. You probably know that prolonged exposure to stress can lead to problems with concentration, sleeping, immune system failure, high blood pressure and so on. If you manage to beat the stress, your memory will certainly work better.
Psychologist's answer
The memorising ability weakens with age, but it maight be affected by the manner of life too. People like you, who are exposed to everyday stress, usually forget some less important things. Your brain „decides“ what to delete from its memory in order to be able to remember some more important information. For example, If you have five tasks to do at the same time, which are all important and urgent, you will easily remember the one that your brain registers as the most important and most urgent, and you will finish it first. After that, there comes the second important task, then the third... But before the end of the day, after being a little relaxed, you suddenly find out that you still have some tasks unfinished... Your problem certainly lies in continuous exposure to stress which results in forgeting things. You probably know that prolonged exposure to stress can lead to problems with concentration, sleeping, immune system failure, high blood pressure and so on. If you manage to beat the stress, your memory will certainly work better.