Hello all - I hope everyone is doing as well as possible.
I read a post that mentioned "decoder" - a brain game for increasing/maintaining mental acuity. I have been using nintendo's "brain age" which was written by a neurologist and has studies showing its effectiveness but after 3 years it's hard to keep up and I usually skip the challenging ones that provide the best benefits. I'm going to look up decoder but am curious if anyone else uses phone apps. I also play typeshift and wordwarp but don't know if they help much.
It's been a while since I've been here (beyond reading posts). There have been positives in my life. I met a wonderful man whom I live with. He's in his 30's and while I may not look 48, inside I'm many years older. It makes for an interesting relationship with its own challenges. The biggest in my opinion being my cognitive problems and mood problems. He offers endless support but on one level I have serious guilt getting him involved with all this crap. But we are both odd birds and get each other and have lots of fun.
But I get depressed bc my cog processes are so defective. Also he's a tech wiz and I have some IT and programming background but I think it's proven to be more of a problem bc I can't or won't follow his streams of thought sometimes. We watch nerdy science vids and argue opposing sides. (check out Veritasium on youtube!) He's obsessed with black holes. He did create a fun memory game. But I really sense my decline and it's seriously bumming me out. He works all day but comes home lively and alert while I can barely compose complex sentences by late afternoon. And if I stress out over anything my brain just shuts down.
I think my inability to process info and then make decisions are my biggest problem. Creating a "plan of attack" for some specific goal and then following through.
I still do crosswords and sudoku and even lumosity. What's really depressing about lumosity is that your high scores are posted so I can see the decline before my eyes. My top scores from word bubbles date back to 2012 and my average score has dropped 3,000 points.
I've tried to gently push him away for his own good but at the end we just both end up depressed and nothing has changed. I really wonder if I'm doing him a disservice. And sometimes I just want to sit alone and not think too much. But I do have most of the day for that. Maybe I should create a new schedule so my evenings are really my mornings. Umm, that's just weird.
But to get back on track, does anyone have any fun brain apps that don't tire easily?
Thank you and best to everyone.
I read a post that mentioned "decoder" - a brain game for increasing/maintaining mental acuity. I have been using nintendo's "brain age" which was written by a neurologist and has studies showing its effectiveness but after 3 years it's hard to keep up and I usually skip the challenging ones that provide the best benefits. I'm going to look up decoder but am curious if anyone else uses phone apps. I also play typeshift and wordwarp but don't know if they help much.
It's been a while since I've been here (beyond reading posts). There have been positives in my life. I met a wonderful man whom I live with. He's in his 30's and while I may not look 48, inside I'm many years older. It makes for an interesting relationship with its own challenges. The biggest in my opinion being my cognitive problems and mood problems. He offers endless support but on one level I have serious guilt getting him involved with all this crap. But we are both odd birds and get each other and have lots of fun.
But I get depressed bc my cog processes are so defective. Also he's a tech wiz and I have some IT and programming background but I think it's proven to be more of a problem bc I can't or won't follow his streams of thought sometimes. We watch nerdy science vids and argue opposing sides. (check out Veritasium on youtube!) He's obsessed with black holes. He did create a fun memory game. But I really sense my decline and it's seriously bumming me out. He works all day but comes home lively and alert while I can barely compose complex sentences by late afternoon. And if I stress out over anything my brain just shuts down.
I think my inability to process info and then make decisions are my biggest problem. Creating a "plan of attack" for some specific goal and then following through.
I still do crosswords and sudoku and even lumosity. What's really depressing about lumosity is that your high scores are posted so I can see the decline before my eyes. My top scores from word bubbles date back to 2012 and my average score has dropped 3,000 points.
I've tried to gently push him away for his own good but at the end we just both end up depressed and nothing has changed. I really wonder if I'm doing him a disservice. And sometimes I just want to sit alone and not think too much. But I do have most of the day for that. Maybe I should create a new schedule so my evenings are really my mornings. Umm, that's just weird.
But to get back on track, does anyone have any fun brain apps that don't tire easily?
Thank you and best to everyone.
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