Comments on: Is grief affecting my memory? Studies show that grief can cause one to forget significant memories

By: Crystal S Everman

Crystal S Everman — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:21:09 +0000

I’m wondering if I’m in denial or just crazy about the recent deaths of my children. When I talk about their deaths and about them I’m historical to my soul. Is it real. I feel crazy or that I’m making up lies about it and them. Please help me understand what to do

By: Sachin Anant Prabhugaonkar

Sachin Anant Prabhugaonkar — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:48:18 +0000

Hi
I had recently lost my brother. He was just 3 years older to me, was about 45. It was a shock for me and I was impacted to another of extent. I performed the rituals and all,however after doing that somehow my blood pressure shot up like anything though I never had a problem of blood pressure till now. Also though having this problem, I was calm. However I was hospitalized but I really do not remember the 2 days that I spent at the hospital. Just there are some glimpses here and there. Also while at the hospital, my wife and brother in law say that I made them write my past experiences about 20 , 25 years back. Really not able to understand why I the 2 days of hospitalization missing from my memory?

By: Eunice Scott

Eunice Scott — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:39:39 +0000

I started a new job 3 days prior to my husband’s death. My husband’s heart stopped at home and I had to do cardiac resuscitation. He lived for 20 days. I had been out of work for 5 months and I really needed a job so I start work when he was in hospice. I have been on my job for 15 months. I begin having some issues in processing paperwork so I began a training module. When I started the module it gave me a daye that I had completed the training. It was the day day before my husband passed away. I ri do not remember the training. Additionally, I am having problems with staying focused. Is this unusual?

By: Sandi Swaid

Sandi Swaid — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:26:39 +0000

I too, had a memory loss about 5 days after my husband passed. My daughters say I suddenly said I couldn’t remember Daddy. They were so concerned I might be having a stroke, they call 911. They took me to the hospital for a work up, and they said I was talking and following instructions. But it wasn’t until I was about to be released that I “woke up” and became aware. I don’t remember anything about the paramedics coming or going to the hospital. I was told it was caused by grief.

By: Yvette

Yvette — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:28:38 +0000

It can absolutely cost near my loss. I have a nephew who lost his mother at the age of 10. Now he is 21 and realizes that he can’t remember large chunks from the age of 10 to 18.

By: Mrs Anne Burke

Mrs Anne Burke — Tue, 28 May 2019 12:12:17 +0000

Please can you give me an answer.
I lost my husband last year to a terminal illness. Idiopathic lung disease. We were told that he had 18 months to 2 years.
I was his carer which I was happy with helping him in his every day needs.
He was in and out of a hospice. I didn’t want him to be in one but he said that he wanted to as he felt safer there.
His family all agreed. It was during the winter and most of the time he was there it was snowing or bad weather so I left around 6.30pm most evenings. I was there from 8ish in the mornings.
The day my husband died in the hospice was the only morning I didn’t call my daughter before leaving home to go. I arrived and sadly my husband passed away within a couple of hours but the staff never told me that this may happen at this time. I would have contacted the family had I been told he didn’t have long.
The main thing I need to know is apparently I said things that his family and my daughter found inappropriate
and acted as if I was glad he had passed. I at no time said that I was glad that he had passed away but there are things that that said I did that I cannot remember. Can memory loss happen during grief ?
Not one of the family have spoken to me since the funeral and my daughter is very close to them and she thinks I am responsible for not letting her know in time so she could be with her dad. When my husband died I sent my daughter a text message saying her dad had gone. She is a teacher and cannot answer call during lesson. After thought I know that I should have called or left message for her to contact me.
Please can you let me know if my not remembering things is possible as I have been told by family that is not an excuse and there is no reconciliation because of my actions.
We have been together since 1969 was 50 years together this year and married for 44 years