I have a program called constant Therapy that I try to work everyday

Write notes for yourself so you remember things. I should do that , but , I don't. It makes me feel like I can't do anything if I have to make a note to myself.

Curtis

I have a lot of brain damage to my memory recall, yet I can still recall some details from every subject from most of these in the classes over the last month. And intermix this with logic problems (having a group of 5 people, 5 vehicles, 5 favorite colors and with the sentences that are listed below the 10 boxes ( 2 for each person) will be a series of sentences which either tell you outright one of these facts about a person, or they will be sentences that match up a color with a vehicle for a particular person OR they provide you with colors and/or vehicles that are not a match for the person.

Playing crossword puzzles or scrabble can help you to recall vocabular words or popular names of a band, location, musical instrument, etc. will also challenge your brain to do mental recall. And it will be frustrating at times, but it will feel great when you are able to recall words, people, places, etc. that you have deep in long-term memory that are brought to mind by that word.

Remember, there is no magic solution and that depending on how many anticonvulsants or mental disorders, conditions or illnesses that you do not currently have under control, the more hampered your memory recall is (even when it has been days, weeks, or even years since your last seizure). Memory recall gets worse with age for all of us. However, only dementia, brain damage to a key area of your memory or a full seizure at that moment are the only ways that you will have lost those memories. Epilepsy and everything that comes with it makes our memory recall worse than others our age. My memory recall because of Epilepsy, cumulative side effect of all anticonvulsants and some other medications for hampering memory recall and times when I do not have control of my depression or anxiety disorder are additional factors besides the brain damage all hamper memory recall, but doing the above can show you that it is possible to improve.

The advice of my Speech and Cognitive Therapist is that you can improve short-term memory and memory recall by challenging the brain.

The best one she gave me is to listen to a pod cast or read a short story and take notes of the key details in answer for these Categories:
Who? (main characters -- not always a human),

What? What is the headline or title of the story and main subject.

NOTE: And these others are all dependent on the type of story as to the priority of importance:
When? (year the story is taking place)
Where? (location of story) How? How does the main character attempt to solve the problem?
Why? Is this a significant enough topic for you to suggest to others to read?

Then, you study your notes for a few minutes and then hand them over to someone else.

You then tell all of the key points in a structure similar to the story or podcast you read or listened to. And you attempt is to have the structure of a review of the story or podcast such that you are telling the person who holds your notes can grade you for how many of these key points listed in the above categories that you remember and tell them at the appropriate time.

NOTE: As she told me, ATTENTION is key. And the more interesting the subject of the story or podcast subject is the best indicator of how much attention you paid to it when taking the notes. It is similar to the subjects in school that you did very well in and those you hated and thus had poor attention to the details of the lessons.

You will find that for the ones that you are most ATTENTIVE to: these will be easiest to remember the key details, you will keep the story/podcast subject in short-term memory for much longer than other things, and it will be one that becomes easy to recall weeks or even a month later without even working hard to do so.

And the more often you do these exercises, the better your short-term memory will become (unless brain damage has taken away the ability to do so) and likewise the easier you will be able to recall the story/podcast key details just by hearing or reading the subject.

Curtis, great advice! Now follow it too! Trust me it is huge to have the auxiliary memory source. It is essential that you keep the notes at the same place at all times so that you do not have to try to guess where you put them. Also, asking people to leave you notes or texting or emailing you will help you too. Anything that lessens the need for memory recall is a good thing. Some memories that appear lost for good are simply very difficult to recall.