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Can Heroin use cause permenant short term memory problems?

  • Posted on August 2, 2010 at 7:21 pm

My 16 yr old daughter is a recovering heroin addict.(1 year)When she returned to school both she and her teacher noticed she was having problems with her short term memory.Paying closer attention at home,I began to notice she couldn’t remember things that happened just a few minutes ago. Sometimes it seems worse depending on the task.This is really starting to bring her down. Is there any techniques that she can learn to help ,especially in the school enviroment ? Has anyone else had to deal with this type of problem and is it common among ex-heroin users?

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Ecstasy and memory / function problems?

  • Posted on July 30, 2010 at 7:24 pm

My 19 yr. old daughter has been steadily taking ecstasy at raves for 7 months. I made her leave our home because of her behavior and attitude. She has only been clean for perhaps 2 weeks. Talking with her last night, it is clear that her memory is unstable. If she is interrupted while talking she can’t remember what she was saying and frequently stops in the middle of a sentence because she can’t keep a train of thought. Simple tasks are difficult for her to complete. She says that she knows it’s simple, but blanks out on how to do it.

It’s my understanding that there is no rejuvenating our brain cells and once they are gone, that’s it. She MAY be allowed back home, however, I have told her that she must get psychiatric (she is also bi-polar) help and counseling for her addictions. Is there anything that can be done to help her memory and every-day functioning?

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Grief ~ a way to remember that feels good

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 6:41 pm

It was the 2nd anniversary of my mother’s passing and who knows what prompted me to write this, other than to pass on some thoughts. (Or maybe just some personal ramblings)

There’s a line in a song
‘ you left me here, to remind me of you’ and that to me is a comfort
~ as long as I am here, so will she.

and hopefully I can display those wonderful qualities she taught me by the way she was and the way she still is within me.

We don’t have to be sad, angry or alone when we remember those who have left us ~ I’m not ~ I miss her and speak to her most days and listen. Not just with my ears but with an awareness and I seem to understand.
But how can you remember in a way that makes you feel ok?

I feel I am lucky to have found NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) way back when I did. It has taught me to know I can experience memories how I want to experience them. I can remember times which before would bring on a negative emotion such as anger, sadness, guilt etc. but now they are just something that happened in my past and are void of those old feelings. Just as importantly I can re-experience the feelings of any good memory, in my mind I am there again and even better that that if I want I can magnify those good feelings and take them with me into my present-my now. In our trainings (my sons’ and mine) and my therapy work it’s great to see others find how much fun you can have learning and doing this and how it truly transforms their future.

Any way, back to that line of the song and one of the simple ways to remember that special someone.

This is what I do.
I think of a good time(s) with her and see it as if I’m looking through my own eyes.
I’m there again, seeing what I saw, hearing what I heard and I feel the good feelings I had and every good memory is the same way. I make it that way because that’s how I want it to be.

If any memory isn’t of a good time, I see it differently. I see myself in the memory, (as if it’s a movie with me in it) over there and I make it smaller and darker, I make it still and move it away from me ~ any not so good feeling just diminish

I also have noticed that a side effect of seeing, hearing and feeling those good memories is that you notice even more good things about that person. Things that you see, maybe a book they read or a photograph brings even more good feelings and sometimes a feeling of gratefulness that you had that person in your life. Now I can talk about my mother (and to her) with nothing other than love and good feelings – no tears just joy.
This is not the only way but a sure way to remember what you want, how you want to and it’s good to remember because……………..

‘ you left me here, to remind me of you’

Enjoy your every heart beat

Paul

Paul Clough is a trainer of NLP and Hypnosis, Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy with his youngest son Joseph Clough. A practicing therapist and coach ~ Someone who talks the talk AND walks the walk. .For more information call +44(0)1223 720 120 or to see free hypnosis and NLP learning videos and audio downloads

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