emic-and-etic comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Yvain 08 August 2009 10:57PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 July 2011 07:12:59PM 3 points [-]

(nods) Absolutely.

This was particularly a problem for me after my stroke, because the brain damage made my memory unusually unreliable. Eventually I put a sheet of paper up by my pills and checked off each day after I took them. (Actually, on bad days, I would sometimes lose track between the first bottle and the third of which pills I'd already taken, so I established the habit of moving each one from left to right after I took it.)

Comment author: [deleted] 13 June 2014 06:11:33AM 0 points [-]

Repeated checking CAUSES memory distrust.

In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) checkers distrust in memory persists despite extensive checking.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12600401