Do you remember where your flat keys lie? And where put a hairbrush in the morning? What color did the shop assistant have hair in shop? We often forget about similar trifles. To whom does not happen, you will tell. But even the light absent-mindedness is already sign that bad memory shines you in the near future. Why and at what age there are similar problems and how to fight against them? Let's find out it right now.
Reasons of bad memory
Memory is thought process which entering such functions as storing, storage and further reproduction. Zabyvaniye is function of a brain which is intended to unload nervous system and to protect it from an overstrain. Most often our brain tries to save us from negative information and negative emotions rather. Therefore we most often forget to make those affairs which are not pleasant to us.
When you feel that your memory became worse, first of all, it is worth understanding in what area you became forgetful. Functions of storing can be divided into several types:
- direct when the zabyvaniye occurs instantly. For example, printed a letter and immediately forgot about it;
- short-term when information is stored up to 30 seconds;
- long-term when the remembered information can be stored in consciousness for years;
- sliding when the necessary fact is stored so much how many it is required to us, and then it is forgotten. For example, the ticket learned on examination.
When the person feels that with memory it became bad, this is not about senile diseases or loss of function of storing resulting from concussion and other serious injuries. The bad memory which arose suddenly is not a disease, and violation of some functions of a brain for which there is a variety of reasons:
- depression, stress or alarm. Any concern narrows outlook of the person to that problem which disturbs him. Thereof the memory impairment and absent-mindedness begins;
- alcohol, some soothing drugs and antidepressants can slow down process of thinking and reduce perception of the world around;
- smoking can also become the reason of that why the person has a bad memory. Nicotine and other toxic agents strike visual memory and weaken short-term;
- bad memory, it also sign of shortage in an organism of vitamins and some amino acids, for example nicotinic and folic;
- chronic fatigue and sleep debt – one of the most common causes of forgetfulness;
- and at last, the most frequent reason why the person suddenly had a bad memory - it is banal haste. Hurrying, the person does not manage to concentrate on trifles and often forgets about them.
To begin to buy up various drugs in drugstore, with the diagnosis "bad memory" it is not obligatory at all. There is a set of ways to improve storing process some of which are suitable for a training of the house or in public transport.
Bad memory – treatment
It is possible to struggle with the forgetfulness in different ways. If very bad memory is not a consequence of a serious trauma or disease, then to get rid of it the following advice will help:
- Be attentive. Try to focus on any business which you carry out. If you remember an important task, try to execute it at once, and information of the world around will help you rather to learn to remember. For example, putting the car, look back and about yourself speak that your car costs opposite to an entrance with the sign such that, and two trees grow at a row. Thus, you involve at once several channels of memory which will help you to reproduce information better.
- Do not distract. If you look for any subject, coming into the room, speak to yourself something like: "I follow keys" and look for keys, without being distracted by foreign things or the TV.
- Try to create logical chains and associative arrays. Let's say you need to remember Ivanov Street 10. Present, familiar with such surname which will come to you at 10 in the morning. The same treats also new names. Let's say you cannot remember a surname of the chief. Think what associations it causes in you. And every time, facing this person, you reproduce the remembered image in the head.
- If bad memory turned out to be consequence of shortage of vitamins what to do in this case? Scientists conducted a number of researches during which it became known, leads deficiency to weakening of function of storing of such substances as iron, a pine forest and zinc. That the organism was sated with them in enough, try to eat several times a week meat, fruit and vegetables.
Often the wrong way of life is the main reason of forgetfulness. Consumption of junk food and alcohol, constant haste, stresses, chronic fatigue – all this leads to misoperation of a brain. Correct all defects of the everyday life, conduct its healthy image and then even in old age to you no diseases will be terrible.
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