You are standing in front of an open cabinet, and a moment later you realize that you have forgotten why you opened it. Have you ever experienced similar situations? Are the failures in your memory frequent in your life? Fortunately, this phenomenon has been thoroughly studied to date, and therefore we will tell you everything you need to know about this.
Causes of Memory Failures
It should be noted that the following reasons for forgetfulness are distinguished:
- High blood pressure or hypodynamia . From the latter there is a decrease in blood flow as a result of narrowing of blood vessels. This negatively affects the functioning of your brain, because it receives much less blood than necessary.
- Low active thyroid . In other words, hypothyroidism , which comes with a variety of symptoms: an unjustified set of extra pounds, unreasonable fatigue, frequent depressive conditions.
- Climax . As you know, during this period, women can only sympathize. Their body goes to the stage when the sex glands produce much less estrogen hormone than 10 years ago. It, after all, but reflects on mental activity.
- Diabetes mellitus . The brain is poorly supplied with blood because the human blood vessels suffer from this disease.
- Osteochondrosis . Is not enough that in the pains of the cervical region, so also in the form of headaches and partial numbness of the fingertips.
- Alzheimer's disease . The disease, most often occurring in the elderly, is characterized by a gradual loss of intellectual abilities.
- Malnutrition or malnutrition . Caused as a result of a lack of vitamin B12 in the body, which controls memory processes.
Types of amnesia
As you know, amnesia is called inability to remember information from your own past. At the same time, it is divided into:
- partial amnesia - the person is difficult to remember certain events;
- retrograde - appears as a result of a head injury and a person can not reproduce the events that occurred before this incident;
- temporary - with time, memories are restored;
- full amnesia, characterized by complete confusion, that is, you do not remember what happened a moment ago.
Treatment of memory dips
In case of head injury and impairment of mental processes, you should consult a neurologist. If you are disturbed by the ability to navigate in the environment, moreover, it is possible that nonexistent memories and other mental disorders may arise, go to the psychiatrist's examination. Do you feel that the causes of memory failures are hidden in thyroid or Alzheimer's disease? Consult an endocrinologist. When, in recent times, you remember yourself staying in permanent depression, it will not be superfluous to go to a psychotherapist.