Tim, I can remember everything under the sun some days, EXCEPT to take my meds, or what I just did a second ago, or what I was about to do.... Sometimes I can mentally back-track, but sometimes it adds up and I begin walking in a fog. If you mean by "thoughts going nowhere", that you think things into a corner, I do that too. I try to fix everything- NOW. Never works. But try telling that to my manic side.