also you had more than one?
Two significant ones to be exact. There were other ones but they were minor and had no symptoms. The two significant ones made me dizzy, lightheaded, sleepy, and foggy for sometime. Though I have a feeling that the medications I took messed with the focus and concentration more.
It's more like it goes blank, empty for a few seconds sometimes. Like I'm just staring at the board and nothing comes up even though there are some obvious moves that I then realize when my brain starts its engine again.
I have dealt with family members that played chess and were diagnosed with dementia.
First, I’d recommend you contact your healthcare professionals and let them know of any changes to your mental health. Let them know about cognition issues too. If you’re going to use your chess performance as a metric, what are you tracking?
I also expect some medications can affect your ability to focus.
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Well yes I have Autism, seriously who plays chess and doesn't have nrain damage?
Interesting topic. I use chess sometimes with people that have mild cognitive impairments. I find it useful for some people working on focusing and sustaining their attention and to be more purposeful.
My brain is a useless pile of heck. I used to be really really good at the piano. I could just sit down and play all day and not do anything else. Thats was until my 12 hour piano sprees led to a broken wrist.
Then its just strategy PC games amd currently chess to fill the void.
What else can I do? Nothing. The autism also came with joint Hypermobility which is why I was good at piano and also why the wrist went broken. I try to read a book, any book, I fall asleep in 5 minutes. My balance and co ordination it turned out are both at zero.
The problem then is in general I speak and write well. Something to do with my memory skills being autism boosted at the cost of everything else. I don't have the usual speech impediments and rather the opposite which isn't good. I go to a job interview and they think I'm really eloquent and make a great first impression. Then 3 weeks later they think 'who the F is this gimp? This isn't the same person we interviewed '. Likewise when people who knew me have all reported 'HE ISNT LIKE THIS, HE WAS NEVER LIKE THIS' when the cognitive decline set in, all it turned out to be was that I stopped pretending / masking and just gave up on life.
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In the past few years, I had some traumatic brain injuries, and also took many psychiatric medications for mental health. I noticed a severe decline in cognitive abilities. It feels like no matter how hard I try, I just can't improve, especially bullet format where a lot of speed, focus and concentration is required.
Anyone else?