Does any one have any advice on cognitive issues ,I am uable to recall words , short term memory gone to Pot , some days for get punctuation , like every thing is issue ,I struggle to cope with more one person talking thats worse problem , sometimes my son tell me something I have no idea what he talking to me about, feel like I am losing the plot most days. any tips for coping in social situations


Hi Pengold:
I know how you're feeling! My cognitive issues come and go; sometimes I am sooo articulate and other times can't put one word in front of another.
I have found that list-making helps tremendously (and then I put my list somewhere prominent so I don't forget that I wrote it).
I also ask people to repeat themselves. Frankly, sometimes that doesn't help either. At the dinner table, when both kids and my husband jump from subject to subject and I find myself getting lost, I ask them to stick to one subject at a time so I can follow.
I focus on one thing at a time. In following a recipe, for instance, I read "pepper" and repeat the word in my mind as I take the pepper out of the cabinet. I know that if I read "salt" and "pepper" I'll forget both items before I get to the cabinet to take them out.
Mainly, I find that my cognitive issues are greatly exacerbated by stress and fatigue. It tells me I'm doing too much and need to really slow down.
Hope some of this helps.
- Julie