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Hello, when your younger time seems much longer. When 10 a week seems forever. When 15 a month seems a long time. When 25 a year seems a long time.

After 50 a year is the minimum unit of time. Anything less seems a bit too urgent. You mean to fix the fence and 2 years go by, you mean to read a book and never get around to it, you think a film came out 5 years ago but it was 15, etc.

For you, your diagnosis was over half your life ago, so it will seem a long time, plus 11 years is not nothing.

Depending on how your mind works, time can be distorted. I remember some scenes in good detail, plus the emotions I felt, they were 30 years ago but feel only 1. I have also lost big chunks on mush due to being too stressed.

You can do something exciting and 2 days later if feels like a month ago. Like after a holiday, within days it feels like forever ago.

Perception of time is strange. 

Time is a strange thing. It’s weird how some things feel like they take sooooo long and other things seem to fly by and I’m like how did that go so fast? As a child the days seemed never ending and I didn’t notice time but as an adult now I’m noticing how fast the time seems to go by, except for when I’m at work. I watch the clock a lot and its like it’s going in slow motion.

I remember when I was a child probably about 7 or 8 and we went on holiday to the country side and that summer was just so carefree and fun and felt as if it went on forever. In a good way! And I remember it lasted weeks, the whole summer it just felt amazing from the start to the end. But my parents said it was just a week we were away and the rest of the summer we were cooped up inside the house because it rained pretty much the whole time.

Stuart333 said:

Depending on how your mind works, time can be distorted. I remember some scenes in good detail, plus the emotions I felt, they were 30 years ago but feel only 1. I have also lost big chunks on mush due to being too stressed.

I feel you here. Stress can have such a big effect on your memory. I've also got ADHD and this affects my memory as well and added with the anxiety it's a bad combo to have.

With some memories I have I can also smell things that were there at the time as well. This can be overpowering but also really nice at the same time.

Sorry I've said a lot here. I just find it interesting!

Have a nice day.

Time is a strange thing. It’s weird how some things feel like they take sooooo long and other things seem to fly by and I’m like how did that go so fast? As a child the days seemed never ending and I didn’t notice time but as an adult now I’m noticing how fast the time seems to go by, except for when I’m at work. I watch the clock a lot and its like it’s going in slow motion.

I remember when I was a child probably about 7 or 8 and we went on holiday to the country side and that summer was just so carefree and fun and felt as if it went on forever. In a good way! And I remember it lasted weeks, the whole summer it just felt amazing from the start to the end. But my parents said it was just a week we were away and the rest of the summer we were cooped up inside the house because it rained pretty much the whole time.

Stuart333 said:

Depending on how your mind works, time can be distorted. I remember some scenes in good detail, plus the emotions I felt, they were 30 years ago but feel only 1. I have also lost big chunks on mush due to being too stressed.

I feel you here. Stress can have such a big effect on your memory. I've also got ADHD and this affects my memory as well and added with the anxiety it's a bad combo to have.

With some memories I have I can also smell things that were there at the time as well. This can be overpowering but also really nice at the same time.

Sorry I've said a lot here. I just find it interesting!

Have a nice day.

I get that a lot of songs.

Sometimes being in a certain place can trigger a memory as well for me.

More often it is the other way around, that smells can trigger memories, just like certain song can.