Many white-collar workers often don’t remember what they want to say when they say something. After forgetting for several times in a row, they can’t help worrying about their memory, and even wonder if it is a precursor of Alzheimer’s… experts say that forgetfulness is a manifestation of nervous decline, which may be related to excessive pressure, excessive brain use, insufficient sleep and so on.
Mr. Chen, a white-collar worker, said: “my memory has been getting worse and worse in the past two years. Sometimes when I just remember a sentence, I turn around and say it to my colleagues, but I can’t remember it. At home, I obviously want to go to the kitchen to get a spoon, but I take a pair of chopsticks.” To this end, the family also joked: “are you senile dementia?” Mr. Chen himself began to be nervous, afraid that he really had “senile dementia”. Later, he went to the hospital for examination and found that he used his brain too much, was under too much pressure and did not get enough sleep. After treatment, he improved significantly.
Recently, many white-collar workers in their early 40s have similar situations. This forgetfulness also tends to be younger. Some people in their 30s also have memory loss, such as often forgetting where to put their mobile phones.
Experts say that for middle-aged white-collar workers, they are in the period of the heaviest pressure of family and work, and they are prone to physical and mental fatigue at this time. If you use your brain too much and don’t get enough sleep, you are prone to neurosis, including neurasthenia, depression, anxiety, etc.
Experts explained that for white-collar workers, this kind of memory disorder is a functional disorder caused by brain fatigue, which does not damage the brain tissue structure, so it is functional, temporary and reversible. At this time, if some anti anxiety and depression drugs or sleeping pills are properly used to improve sleep, and various methods such as sports and recreational activities are properly used to reduce stress and comprehensive treatment, memory impairment will be improved accordingly.
In fact, forgetfulness and dementia are two different concepts. Generally speaking, from the age of 40 to 50, people’s memory gradually begins to decline. This kind of brain tissue aging and neural function decline is a normal physiological phenomenon. For ordinary middle-aged people, it is normal to have problems such as memory decline with age. The progress of this memory disorder is very slow and the performance will not be very serious.
Experts said that to distinguish between “true” and “false” Alzheimer’s disease caused memory loss, it mainly depends on whether there are other intellectual disabilities besides memory loss, such as: decreased computing ability, partial or complete forgetting of numbers, and even simple calculations, such as “4 + 5 =?” It is difficult to complete. In addition, some people can’t find their way home and don’t know their relatives.
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