Do you forget words?

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Yes, often. I've also become much worse with age and I found that several months of SSRI's further diminished my ability to find the right word (along with most of my other mental capabilities).

I noticed that most medication has a negative affect on my cognitive abilities. Unfortunately I'm not very well off to begin with so an SSRI or neuroleptic can it make it a thousand times worse. My counselor and I have been considering a stimulant because I haven't done well enough on other types. I really hope it works out. I wonder if Ritalin helps with speech and memory? I think it'd help me more emotionally if I had better cognitive abilities that's the main thing that stresses me out and also depresses me.

Same here, esp. with names, and i can describe the things fairly well without remembering their names, that is, what they do, how they look, where to find them ...

It mostly happens to me on days during which I actually talk to people.

When it happens online, I make google give up the word.

Another thing I do is visualize something that might have the word on it. Once I was trying to say something about Nutella, and could not remember the name at all. So I visualized a jar of Nutella and read the name off the label.

I actually did that earlier this morning, but I don't remember what the word was.

happens a lot to me I can't get the word and I can visualize that what I am trying to say.

I'm always forgetting the word acronym, no idea why.

I often forget words, too. I either stop dead in the middle of a sentence while I try to think of the next word I need (which I may or may not remember), or I end up calling objects, activities, places (etc.) "thing" or "thingy"

Constantly. Er, or at least when I am talking to people, which isn't very often. I like to take it as evidence that it's possible to have thought without words.

I find I can't come up with a good enough description to google the word often... but it sometimes helps.

Happens to me all the time and like others said, I can usually remember the first letter of the word but not the whole word.

I'm not alone, then!

Sometimes I can describe the word, like "it start with an s", or "there is two m in it", or "it a long word" but I can't describe the thing in itself.
Most of the time, my brain freeze and I forget all what I wanted to say…

I have trouble with people name two, sometimes I have to look at my colleague for like a minute trying to remember her name. She already saw me do this many times, it's embarrassing. I think people believe it is disrespectfull but it's not!

Yeah. And then I make up something, like a technical description.

Haha! Same here I used to work in a bar and I'd describe people by what they drank, where they sat and what time roughly they would be in! Even my work mates started to use the way to describe people if they didn't know their names!! !

Yes.

Well, I do have another two decades of practice.

I was just thinking about this topic over the weekend. I do this a lot, forgetting common words. So I just substitute a physical description of the thing with the buttons on top and it is white and kind of large under the counter to the left of the sink beneath the counter where the dishrack is and you put stuff (I have forgotten the words for bowls and plates) in it and it washes them and makes a lot of noise and you have to go upstairs because the noises are super annoying and it dries them too and the stuff is hot afterwards.