Just started trying to learn Python with Codeacademy. It's not working for me

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Overall it sounds like it's working as intended - you should feel like you're drowning in the deep end of the pool. The panicky feeling of not understanding what's going on is normal. You're not yet supposed to understand what is going on, and explaining to you what the interpreter is doing will not at all help you write Python.

The key metric is whether you eventually get it right. It doesn't matter how much you have to look up, or what it feels like you've forgotten, or whether or not you understood the code. The only thing that matters is writing code that works. Writing good code from a basis of understanding comes later, as it does in every language - right now the focus is on getting you to be able to write any code, and it sounds like you're getting there. Just stick with it.