“Busy Life Syndrome” is a real disorder causing forgetfulness and lack of concentration in people who take in too much information daily.

Every one of us suffers from forgetting things from time to time, and it’s perfectly normal. Scientific studies have established that perfectly healthy individuals can suffer up to 30 mental lapses every week of the ‘Why did I go upstairs?’ kind.

With modern life getting more complex and harried, remembering everything we need to know gets even harder. In 2012, Scottish researchers coined a new condition to describe this type of memory loss. They called it the Busy Life Syndrome. Doctors at a Glasgow-based clinical trials company going by the name CPS Research say the syndrome is as a result of hectic lives flooded with information overload from everywhere: radio, TV, mobile phones, tablets, and the Internet.
Spokeswoman Angela Scott-Henderson had this to say: ‘We believe there are widespread signs of the problem. Our attention spans and concentration levels are going down. It’s getting to be more common, affecting people at younger ages.’
If you want to establish if you’re suffering from Busy Life Syndrome, some of the memory problems could include: forgetting the name of a person you just met, putting things down and being unable to find them soon after, taking some minutes to recollect where you parked the car, forgetting why the hell you went upstairs, forgetting trivial things a friend remarked the day before or even the ‘thingamabob’ moment (briefly forgetting the word for something).
The Busy Life Syndrome has led to drug companies raking in substantial sums from ‘memory pills’.