MandySlade
28-06-09, 19:37
Yes, I googled. :(
I constantly have a fear of "going crazy" in one way or another. Well, recently I've been thinking back to weird events in my life and saying to myself "what if that didn't really happen?" eventually I'll bring it up to someone else who was there like "hey, remember that time..." and they've always validated it for me.
Then, while searching the death of billy mays today... which lead to searching about head injuries... which lead to searching about amnesia.. I found "Memory distrust syndrome"
Memory distrust syndrome is a term coined by Gudjonsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisli_Gudjonsson) and MacKeith (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacKeith&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1982, to describe those who distrust his or her own memory and who be motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources to verify the accuracy of memory.
Memory distrust syndrome is associated with source amnesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_amnesia), which prohibits full recollection of how one acquired a specific memory. Additionally, memory distrust syndrome involves confusion concerning the content or context of events, a highly attributable factor to confabulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation) in brain disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brain_disease&action=edit&redlink=1).
so now i'm worried that this is what i have and that it will be a process of decline in my memory and brain function in general now. *sigh*
I constantly have a fear of "going crazy" in one way or another. Well, recently I've been thinking back to weird events in my life and saying to myself "what if that didn't really happen?" eventually I'll bring it up to someone else who was there like "hey, remember that time..." and they've always validated it for me.
Then, while searching the death of billy mays today... which lead to searching about head injuries... which lead to searching about amnesia.. I found "Memory distrust syndrome"
Memory distrust syndrome is a term coined by Gudjonsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisli_Gudjonsson) and MacKeith (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacKeith&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1982, to describe those who distrust his or her own memory and who be motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources to verify the accuracy of memory.
Memory distrust syndrome is associated with source amnesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_amnesia), which prohibits full recollection of how one acquired a specific memory. Additionally, memory distrust syndrome involves confusion concerning the content or context of events, a highly attributable factor to confabulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation) in brain disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brain_disease&action=edit&redlink=1).
so now i'm worried that this is what i have and that it will be a process of decline in my memory and brain function in general now. *sigh*