Is epilepsy impacting your memory?

Try these tools instead of trying “harder”.

Both seizures and anti-seizure medications can have an impact on memory.

It can feel frustrating and agonising when you can't find the word you're looking for, or you forget the name of someone you've spent years working with, or you don't know if you've taken your meds or not.

This can add additional anxiety to an already anxiety-inducing condition.

But I've realised a couple of things: Everyone has lapses in their memory!

It's not just us, so we need to stop punishing ourselves.

There are ways we can work with vs.

Against our memory.

There are real tools that can help us with everything from documentation, to visualisation, to sending text reminders about meds!

Anti-seizure medications and seizures can cause memory difficulties...

Here are some practical ideas to help when you feel stuck memo-ries a free app designed specifically for people with epilepsy by advocate and caregiver, michelle san jose the app allows you to: Send text reminders for meds produce a seizure diary track people you meet track where you’ve been ...

And more!

Struggling with learning and retaining information?

Don’t just read the content.

Try a different way.

Say it out loud.

Draw it.

Create mindmaps.

Explain it to someone else.

It helps you create new retrieval methods for the information.

The next tool can help automate this for you...

Enter: Notebook lm an AI tool from google that allows you to simply turn written content into your preferred format.

Create videos, quizzes, audio, podcasts, and mindmaps in seconds!

You don’t need to rely on memory.

You can make your content visible: 📅 calendar reminders 📝 written checklists 📱 phone reminders 🗺️ diagrams & drawings 🎨 colour coding & highlighting 📸 photos when you’re feeling stuck, and you’re done “trying to remember”.

Use these tools to change the way you remember.