I think this is a sign of eventual dementia ?

How old are you and does it run in the family?

Is this the only instance of something like this happening?

Your brain goes through everything that happened that day in your dreams and essentially throws away what you don’t need to know. Eventually, you forget lots of stuff which is why I can’t remember what I had for dinner 3 months ago. Or why you most likely can’t recall events on this very day exactly a year ago, unless something very significant happened like something life-changing or traumatic.

It could be dementia, depending on your age and other health issues you should get a doctor visit, but I’m only pointing out that it might not be, and a possible reason why you wouldn’t remember it.

1998, and (the second part of) 2015 and 2016 were very troubling, traumatic periods in my life.
More and more I find that (sometimes little, sometimes insignificant, but also quite big) events that happened during these years and months seem to not have been registered in my brain.
I simply cannot recollect things that have happened or that I did.
Things I wrote, things I did or told (to) others, photos that I’ve made even.
What I want to say with this is that, apparently, at least that is what I make of it, sometimes trauma(tic experiences) can totally take the place of stuff that usually, normally, would be easy to remember.
Don’t know of course if the same mechanism works for all people, or for you, and I don’t know of course if something big and nasty happened in your life, before and/or during the time said question was posted.

Do ya think she forgot she asked this question? :D

Does it look like something you would post? Because it could also be someone else using your computer, or your account, or a bug.

Even if it was you, that’s not clearly a sign of dementia.

Well, yes, I have been through a lot of very disturbing events over and over the last few years . The past month I have been so stressed out over my good friend’s husband having brain cancer. We , the lady and I , spent a lot of fun times together when we were both separated from our ex’s decades ago; we’re still friends and I seem to be taking on her or feeling her depression, anxiety and feelings of doom as MD Anderson in Houston continues giving her husband tests for eight hours a day after the surgery has made him totally blind in one eye. They could not get all of it out and he was saying his “good” eye is not seeing like it did a week ago. They are on my mind around the clock. His cancer is called terminal on every website, they know it and they keep giving him tests. He is only seventy two and last month was at the gym five days a week. Her children live across the country and , trust me, they will not and have not offered to help in any way. She lives forty five miles from us.

@Dutchess_III Sorry; I don’t give out my age. Good grief it’s too depressing.
And no; it does not run in my family.

Stress can do weird things. I don’t think I’d worry about it too much.

One swallow does not a summer make. I agree that stress is probably more the cause – too much on your mind. Of course, if incidents keep occurring, you can go to your GP and discuss your concerns. He or she would probably give you a mini-mental exam that tests your cognitive function for any red flags.

While your assumption that you do have or will have dementia may be accurate, that would not be the first conclusion that I would draw from such an episode.

That is, if Facebook is a casual application for you, or if you post frequently there without writing essays or without a great deal of emotional attachment to each post, then it’s like a lot of other casual things. Do you recall all of the meals that you had for lunch and dinner last December? I can barely recall the ones I had last week; they’re casual things without a lot of emotional attachment.

However, I can recall pretty well the few times that I went out to eat with friends in the past few months, because I don’t do that very often, and I enjoy my friends’ company when I do. (However, I still can’t easily recall everything we talked about – only a few things.)

I make a lot of casual posts to Facebook that garner “likes” weeks and months after I made them. Sometimes when I’m reviewing my notifications and see a “like” of a post that I made long ago (since FB doesn’t say in the notification the date of your post that is being reacted to), the partial comment that comes up on the notification doesn’t remind me at all of what the comment or the topic was. In fact, sometimes I’ll click on the notification to go back into FB to see “What is this about?” and I’m often not fully reminded until I’m back in the thread and reviewing the top post that’s being commented upon. (Same in this forum, too, sometimes.)

And dementia does run in my family. My mother had pretty much lost most of her memory for events and things toward the end of her life (although she still had a good memory for family and friends), but I’m not worried. Maybe I’m just too far gone to be worried, and I should worry about that… but I’m still not worried.

@janbb For some reason our GP doesn’t do anything but prescribe pills or send patients to specialists. Suspect a UTI ? He sends you to his female pro. I don’t know what her title is but even she sends patients to specialists!

He might send you to a neurologist or psychiatrist then but if you really become concerned, it is worth it.

It is a concern of mine because there is senility in the family.

ˆˆˆˆ^ He could send me to a psychiatrist but I wouldn’t go. Why? Because they are all drug pushers and I’m not getting into that . And I think a neurologist would do the same thing. My father in law had Alzheimers’ and there wasn’t a pill or potion or threat of annihilation by my mother in law that could stop it. He had it for six years and died skin and bones in a nursing home.

@Aster You’re right; there are no pills for it which is not what I was suggesting. You can stay with your worries or you can look into it further.

Thanks @janbb . I will bury my worries often with good movies. Or books.

I often wonder if my mom even had Alzheimer’s, or if the meds they gave her for it drove her mad.

Good question.
It reminds me of another answer I wrote about rollercoasters. Some people get on them, then don’t want to go on the ride once it starts. I remember being unimpressed during the line, then once the Clack Clack Clack starts, I change my mind and wave to get the operator to stop the ride and let me out, but I am ignored, or probably laughed at, and the ride goes on, and the items I had in my shirt pocket spill out, including the stub from the parking lot at the airport, which means I will now have a penalty fee on the car, which is a pain because I had the trip budgeted for so much, and now I probably have to skip the nicey nice restaurant I had planned. They have the lamb hamburgers (lambburgers?) That are so amazing.
What was the question?

LOLLL!!

No, I don’t think it tells you much about your state of mind now or in the future. I think it just means you were a bit distracted at the time you made the post and while thinking of something else you made the post absent mindedly.

I don’t think (and I surely hope) it is not indicative or dementia. Just part of the aging process. If we don’t attach any great importance to something, we tend to not store it in our memory.. We gotta lot of other stuff to worry about.

I think.

@Aster if you notice a pattern with your memory issues, then that’s the time to be concerned. Once is an event. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern.

Going to a psychiatrist does’t have to be like that.

You have a specific concern, and your particular concern can be confirmed with an in office test.
I suffered brain damage after a crosswalk accident.
I was sent to a shrink to be tested for dementia.
It took a long time. I became stressed. Still, it can determine the difference between dementia and distraction.

By the way, Alzheimer’s is not the only cause of dementia.
Some causes are temporary.

If you feel stress over this, you should see about scheduling a test.
I found it comparable to IQ tests. To me it was a huge nuisance, but it is painless, and could set your mind at ease.

@Aster From the way you write, you seem very sharp mentally and far from dementia. The circumstances you described after my first post would, I think, reasonably give even a completely healthy person of any age a lot of stress and preoccupation. It sounds like you’re also fairly empathic and are sharing some of the experience that that couple is going through, and that too can be disorienting and stressful. I’d be surprised if you weren’t showing several signs of breaking down in one way or another.

Stress often causes memory loss, and forgetting a Facebook post sounds appropriate and minor, to me.