Has anyone else gone through something where they've lost entire chunks of their life memory-wise due to illness, injury or other event?

Mar 3, 2016 · 5:57 AM UTC

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@mtrimpe Trauma and memory loss are coming up a lot in this discussion. It's a survival mechanism of sorts. You are well now, I hope?
@mtrimpe I posted on FB too and the response is more than I expected from my question. It affects a lot more people than we must realize!
@antonpeck :( Unnerving, to say the least. Deep empathy is shared between us in this regard. I'm grateful our friendship has persevered. xox
@antonpeck @bryanveloso THAT is bloody insane! What a wild night, and a great time. Was the last "insanely great" SXSW for me. Don't go now.
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@mholzschlag my wife did with podt natal depression.
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@boagworld I'm sorry to hear that. I can't imagine a mother going through that, it must be intensely traumatic. She is well now, I hope?
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@mholzschlag I haven't but I know someone who has
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@mholzschlag Not as a total blank, but there is a great deal of fuzziness to much of the time I was on chemo & lots of detail lost from…
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@mholzschlag yes. I had a seizure and it took out all of my memory for parts of my life. People tell me it happened but I don't remember it
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@mholzschlag Not an event, as much as a life-long problem with recall. Whilst I have vague images of certain events, my childhood...
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