Reply To: The Woman who Can’t Forget (Year 1 Thur.)

[Anonymous]

Memory is an essential aspect of human functioning. It contributes to our consciousness: it enables keeping present information in mind to process their meaning and then learning both the information and their interpretation. It makes it possible to understand the environment, people around and ourselves and to fortify our knowledge along with subsequent experiences. Any exaggeration in memory’s activity obstruct normal everydayness. Diminished remembering and memorizing makes it nearly impossible to understand what the world around, and even the one themselves means and involve dependence on understanding and support from others. The excess in memory relating to personal events disturbs focusing on present events and actions and causes emotional difficulties in dealing with vivid recollections. Moreover, it can inhibit learning information unrelated to a person with this disorder, such as scientific or historical facts. However, both Clive’s and Jill’s examples prove that is possible to adapt to one’s memory dysfunction despite some limits.