"What I mean by the time of forgetfulness is this time in my life, when I am a woman of a certain age, as they used to say politely back in the day. I'm a baby boomer, and so are many of my friends and a ton of other people, so there are a lot of us of a certain age, experiencing the time of forgetfulness."
"All I know is that every time I tell someone that I am getting forgetful and it's driving me crazy because I keep losing my glasses, my phone, my keys, or my words, every single person I say that to says something like, "Oh, me too." And then we complain and commiserate. "We can't all be coming down with dementia," I say to my friends when they say they're worrying about that for themselves."
"I think it could be all the things requiring our attention, taking up our mental space: all the details we're constantly juggling, all the things that are constantly calling out to be noticed and remembered-emails and phone calls and text messages, PINs and passwords, and the myriad other things that have to be kept track of to keep life going these day. Not to mention the steady fire hose of news stories. It's hard to grab onto it all and hold onto it all."
Forgetfulness becomes more common as people reach a certain age, with many experiencing misplacement of glasses, phones, keys, and words. Travel and busy schedules can make lapses more noticeable. Many people of the baby boomer generation report similar memory slips, leading to commiseration and reassurance among friends. The relentless demands of modern life — emails, calls, texts, PINs, passwords, and constant news — consume mental space and make it difficult to hold onto details. Memory lapses often provoke worry about dementia, yet many attribute such lapses to normal aging and the overload of contemporary life.
Read at Psychology Today
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