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  • In my opinion with careful observation you can figure it out what are conditions for your forgetfulness.

    When humans don’t have data about a phenomenon, they tend to bend their perception in various ways. By rituals or black and white generalized thinking.

    Crealrly there is something complex going on as you remember some things and you forget others. The important stuff is to figure out what is different about them and how you can mitigate that in the future.

    Mindfulness Is a process to teach yourself a skill to observe the mind and notice the patterns. If you notice things you can then begin to control them and modify them.

    It also depends what your goal is:

    Pass an exam -> study how to study
    Memorise 100 digits of pi or some other information -> mnemotechnics
    Stop being forgetful -> Mindfulness will teach you how to notice the things happening in your mind so you can figure out why you are forgeting important stuff. Magic solution to solve all your problems -> doesn’t exist





  • Then the problem is that you are trying to memorise things that shouldn’t be memorised.

    anki, mind palace and other mnemotechnics are good if you need to memorise irregular conjugations but math is different. The easiest method is to associate thing to memorise with some absurd and funny sentence. Emotions are relly good catalyst for memorising stuff.

    Math is based on rules and principles that you need to mix and match. The standard and basic method is to do hundredths of exercises. The better aproach would be to use math to solve complex problem with a lot of different tools. Some algebra, some geometry, some analysis. It will engage your brain and by putting mental effort (not willpower effort) you will retain that stufd for the future.










  • Is there anything I can do?

    Yes, lot of stuff that you can’t even think about.

    Your mind is playing tricks on you. It manipulates reality into an image that seems hopless and for you its the true state of the world.

    Step 0 is to find safe space.

    For starters I began with walking out of the house as much as possible (walks, riding a bike, hanging out in the libraries and malls to not freeze during wintrer)

    Find minimum wage job that you can hold for a longer amount of time so you can earn money to try and rent a room somewhere to escape from your house.

    Then you can proceed into step number one, where therapy and medication begin to work as you have safe space to go back to every day.

    There maybe a possibility to convince your parents to send you away into the university and to live in cheap dorm rooms where you could escape from home and back in your healing journey.