What is Amnesia
Amnesia (or amnaesia) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or di...
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Just a question about memory loss.
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I would like to know if others with amnesia have recovered some of their memories. If so, do you find it difficult to adjust to living with memories again?
Everyone keeps telling me that I am worrying too much about things I can't change, but I think that is easy for them to say. They know what it is like to live with memories. And while no one remembers everything, I think that people that still have their memories have a choice in what they remember or not, even if it is only a subconcious level. Amnesia and the recovery of some of my memories, well, I am not given a choice in what I remember, retain, or forget. Still, wouldn't you want back whatever memories you could remember, even if there is not pattern to the recall or if you never remember everything. It is still a part of who you were, isn't it? Isn't that enough reason to want to know? Even as disturbing as it may be to see a person in myself that no longer exists, I still want to know, but I am also finding it very frightening to live with memories again. Especially, since the person I am is so different from the person I was. What do you think? Posted on 03/11/08, 12:03 pm |
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please join head injury and stroke. they can ALL relate to this. i have been having steady recall in NO PATTERN since 1987. before that i had similar success in 1984 and then total loss again. when i recall i feel JOY. i feel like i am wearing one of those lead aprons they put on you for x-rays and the lead apron has been removed from my head. i wish i knew everything. photos help A LOT when you have them. they are like medicine. but i don't have a lot of them. a lot of evil people in the world. predators don't want you to recall and new predators will find you. they lurk and wait. i was shocked to discover that. ("people really do steal from the blind." people really do go after people who they feel will just block them out anyway.) 
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I don't remember the better part of the two years in which I was depressed and suicidal. The other day, in fact, I got this weird flash of memories from that time, which really upset me because I don't like the person that I was back then. The memories have gotten fuzzier and for all I know they might disappear again, who knows. I think of losing my memories from that time as a gift from fate or god or whatever is out there. This might not have been very helpful but I just wanted you to know that someone relates to you and you're not alone.
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Wow, you sound exactly like me. The way that other people with memory try to brush off the fact that I have amnesia as not being a big deal is very annoying, It is very easy for them to say that they can't remember anything from their past either is infuriating because they ARE able to remember stuff... perhaps not all, but I can't remember anything!!!!!
I have retrograde amnesia. I've had it for about 7 years now and very recently I have started to remember things from my past like the house I grew up in, etc. But I still have not been able to recall an actual event or conversation or relationship. Just certain photographic kinds of stuff, if that makes any sense I too would love to remember who I was. I feel like I have no basis or background. I'm just this person and I have no idea where I come from. I don't know who I am. People know me and I have no idea who they are. People tell me how different I am. People tell me stories of things I've done and it's just so sad. I already have depression and having amnesia just makes it that much worse.
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