Brain fog, memory and the fun for every one.... word mix
@kitkatb @Harvey1903 @Blossom1961 . I tagged you guys as I was going to put this with the discussion in night howls but thought it might warrant it's own heading and may be help for others.
I still have trouble with the melding of two words and loss of train of thought. I also have an issue with spelling which is incredibly upsetting and frustrating and has never been a problem for me.
The good news is you can improve it!
The short term memory I have been able to rebuild really quite well. To the point of not forgetting why I am at the shops or why I walked into a room and, I haven't had to set an alarm to remember anyones birthday for a while so yay!
There are still a few other issues with mid term memory blanks and disorientation but I am working on them..
The problem seems to be (for me anyway) that you can run through what you are going to say in your head and it is correct. By the time it gets out of your mouth its backwards, sideways and upside down or you forgot halfway through right?
I haven't found reading any help at all. My brain drifts off, doesn't take things in and I end up reading the same paragraph three times to keep up with what's going on. This is much better now though was unhelpful and frustrating for me in the beginning.
Its taken a lot of trying different things for a couple of weeks at a time to see if there is any benefit. These are what I have found works best. They are fast, easy things that you can see improvement fairly quickly and a bit of fun. Otherwise you're not going to do it conistently. Well, I'm not any way.
You may need to set reminder alarms at the start to remember to do them until they become a habit.
1. Elevate app. Down load it Just the free one.
It takes less than 5 minutes to complete. You only get one session a day on the free one but any longer than that I found a bit ho hum. If you're up for longer and the $5 a month for the extra bits go for it.
Do it first up in the morning with your coffee or whatever. It works best then. Wakey wakey brain.
2. Word search on a timer. Without a timer unhelpful, distraction, brain wandering etc.
I have a find a word app (I think it is by mindlogic) this one has a timer that gets faster as you go through the levels and a lot of different categories. If you prefer pen and paper, use the stop watch on your phone/ egg timer, whatever.
5 mins in the morning and however often you want to play during the day lunch break etc.
3. Crosswords. These are incredibly helpful to me. Again the time is essential. Do one without it and then just try to beat that time. Easy. A little more time consuming if you chose the big ones, but you can buy a book of the smaller ones pretty cheap at the newsagent. Do whenever but try for one a day at the beginning.
That's it!!! It's the timer that gives you the focus and the consistency. I also take the swisse ginko and brahmi focus supplement. Still haven't decided whether this has been helpful and am pretty haphazard about taking it at the moment so probably just another expensive pee product.
Hope you get some use out of it.
xoxoxoxox
I still have trouble with the melding of two words and loss of train of thought. I also have an issue with spelling which is incredibly upsetting and frustrating and has never been a problem for me.
The good news is you can improve it!
The short term memory I have been able to rebuild really quite well. To the point of not forgetting why I am at the shops or why I walked into a room and, I haven't had to set an alarm to remember anyones birthday for a while so yay!
There are still a few other issues with mid term memory blanks and disorientation but I am working on them..
The problem seems to be (for me anyway) that you can run through what you are going to say in your head and it is correct. By the time it gets out of your mouth its backwards, sideways and upside down or you forgot halfway through right?
I haven't found reading any help at all. My brain drifts off, doesn't take things in and I end up reading the same paragraph three times to keep up with what's going on. This is much better now though was unhelpful and frustrating for me in the beginning.
Its taken a lot of trying different things for a couple of weeks at a time to see if there is any benefit. These are what I have found works best. They are fast, easy things that you can see improvement fairly quickly and a bit of fun. Otherwise you're not going to do it conistently. Well, I'm not any way.
You may need to set reminder alarms at the start to remember to do them until they become a habit.
1. Elevate app. Down load it Just the free one.
It takes less than 5 minutes to complete. You only get one session a day on the free one but any longer than that I found a bit ho hum. If you're up for longer and the $5 a month for the extra bits go for it.
Do it first up in the morning with your coffee or whatever. It works best then. Wakey wakey brain.
2. Word search on a timer. Without a timer unhelpful, distraction, brain wandering etc.
I have a find a word app (I think it is by mindlogic) this one has a timer that gets faster as you go through the levels and a lot of different categories. If you prefer pen and paper, use the stop watch on your phone/ egg timer, whatever.
5 mins in the morning and however often you want to play during the day lunch break etc.
3. Crosswords. These are incredibly helpful to me. Again the time is essential. Do one without it and then just try to beat that time. Easy. A little more time consuming if you chose the big ones, but you can buy a book of the smaller ones pretty cheap at the newsagent. Do whenever but try for one a day at the beginning.
That's it!!! It's the timer that gives you the focus and the consistency. I also take the swisse ginko and brahmi focus supplement. Still haven't decided whether this has been helpful and am pretty haphazard about taking it at the moment so probably just another expensive pee product.
Hope you get some use out of it.
xoxoxoxox
