Dementia
They often know about their forgetfulness. Not everyone with MCI develops dementia.[medlineplus.gov]
Others believe that any evidence of forgetfulness is evidence of dementia. Neither of these conclusions is accurate.[medicinenet.com]
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the stage between normal forgetfulness due to aging and the development of dementia.[medlineplus.gov]
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Others are highly distractible, forgetful, or inattentive. Some appear distracted by every little thing and don't seem to learn from their mistakes.[citeseerx.ist.psu.edu]
Inattentiveness The main signs of inattentiveness are: having a short attention span and being easily distracted making careless mistakes – for example, in schoolwork appearing forgetful[nhs.uk]
[…] their own and his advisor's Vanderbilt's, which each endorse 7 of 9 inattentive symptoms including trouble organizing, poor attention to detail, and easily distracted and forgetful[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Overeating
With a low self esteem and need for love and validation, she may turn to obsessive episodes of binging and eating as a way to forget the pain and the desire for affection.[timberlineknolls.com]
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So forget the idea of having a lolly jar on your desk that you only raid in emergencies, or a packet of biscuits in the cupboard that you only open if guests visit.[bodyandsoul.com.au]
Amnesia
Clearly, forgetting seems to be a natural part of life. Why do we forget? And is forgetting always a bad thing? Forgetting can often be obnoxious or even embarrassing.[nobaproject.com]
For example, patients may forget the months or years of being abused as a child or the days spent in intense combat.[merckmanuals.com]
The amnesic episodes and accelerated forgetting remitted on withdrawal of baclofen, while the autobiographical amnesia (AbA) persisted.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Needing to write things down so you do not forget may or may not be significant, but forgetting events that have already taken place is likely to be more serious.[barrowneuro.org]
In the past, we diagnosed older people complaining of minor memory impairment with “benign senescent forgetfulness”, and told them that it didn’t require any further action[theconversation.com]
[…] to forget the names of close family members.[alzheimers.org.uk]
Dissociative Amnesia
Yet it also contains health professionals who argue that individuals cannot forget traumatic events.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ], [Google Scholar] hypothesized that if individuals could forget trauma, the phenomenon would appear in world literature prior to 1800[doi.org]
Clearly, forgetting seems to be a natural part of life. Why do we forget? And is forgetting always a bad thing? Forgetting can often be obnoxious or even embarrassing.[nobaproject.com]
Memory Impairment
Many people worry about becoming forgetful. They think forgetfulness is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease. But not all people with memory problems have Alzheimer's.[nia.nih.gov]
In addition, there was evidence of frontal-type memory problems including impaired spatial working memory, increased forgetting rates, poor prospective memory and inadequate[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Trying to deal with these life changes leaves some people feeling confused or forgetful.[nia.nih.gov]
Whipple Disease
J Clin Pathol. 2017 Oct;70(10):891-895. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204382. Epub 2017 Apr 6. Author information 1 Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 2 Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of[…][ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Dissociative Disorder
This means one part of the mind basically forgets or ignores another part.[study.com]
[…] which recurrently take control of the person's behavior; this is accompanied by a retrospective gap in memory of important personal information that far exceeds ordinary forgetfulness[icd9data.com]
This is not caused by physical illness or injury, such as a concussion, and cannot be explained by forgetfulness.[sunrisehouse.com]
Vitamin B12 Deficiency
In advanced stages, when neurological problems set in, individuals experience confusion, irritability, forgetfulness, tingling sensation in the hands and feet, and difficulty[symptoma.com]
Forgetfulness and Confusion One of the more frightening symptoms of B12 deficiency is severe forgetfulness and confusion.[healthyway.com]
You're confused or forgetful. Because these can also be symptoms of other conditions, see your doctor for a diagnosis.[webmd.com]