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.)
(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.)
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