To think there might be something wrong with her?

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Close female relative in her 30s. Literally tells me the same things over and over again ALL the time. I can have seen her a few days before and she tells me the exact same thing about what someone has said. Sometimes I'll hear the same story three or four times. I've tried to highlight it to her by being like "oh yeah you said she'd said that" etc. I don't know anyone else that's like this. How can she forget again and again and again that shes already told me?!?!

Some people are just like that, has she always been or has it come on suddenly? Any other symptoms/has she had a head injury or been unwell recently?

Hope it isn’t anything serious but it is a worry

It's not impossible that she could have early onset dementia.
Or perhaps she's lonely.

BBC News - 'I'm 27 and preparing for early-onset Alzheimer's'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41124989

Does she drink? I used to forget what I had said and repeat all the time.

Is she an over-sharer? Does she tell everybody everything? One of my close friends is like this, she’ll literally tell me the exact same story word for word multiple times. She over-shares massively and tells everyone everything, so much so that I think she ends up forgetting who she has already told what.

Possibly anxiety. She’s filling the gaps.

Maybe, has she always been like this or is it a new thing?

Some people are just a bit scatty and just forget what they have and haven’t said.

And some people also get anxious and feel the need to fill the gaps with chatter even if they’ve already said it before.

I know someone who does this. They are just self-absorbed so it doesn't matter that you've already heard the story, it's the story they want to tell.

Is she loanly? I don't have anyone to talk to and sometimes repeat the same thing to my husband. It's only because I can't remember if I said it

It irks me that my mum goes this all the time but I know that I do it sometimes too. I just forget I haven't already said things.

I do this sometimes 🤦🏻‍♀️

I do this...

Im not self absorbed either and the moment I realise I've mentioned it I would stop! Ive learnt to say"I cant rememebr if I said about xyz?"

I wish my memory was better but it truly isnt. I also suspect I have ADD so my brain is fairly scatty (high IQ but difficulty functioning) anyway...

I have very bad anxiety and I'm like this when I'm having an episode, so to speak x

Honestly she might just speak to a lot of different friends and forgets who she's told what, I'm the same at 20

"the moment I realise I've mentioned it I would stop!"

That's a good thing. When you try to say "oh yes, you've told me..." or "ah yes, they did x" or "you did mention..." and the person still insists on giving you a word for word account of the story, not so much.

That is a bit different, I've only come across v.old people who do this though. My nan used to when she got in her 80s and I inagine it was hard for her to change track once she started!

Is it a sudden change? Thanks to terrible baby-brain I've been like this the last few months (sorry and thank you for tolerating me to any friends reading this).

My bf has adhd and does this.