2nd February 2024

Diagnosis

This is the disruption in the normal integration of awareness, memory-recall and remembrance, identity, emotion, perception and insight, body representation, motor control and behaviour.

• Dissociative amnesia is the inability to recall important personal information, which is more than what could be explained by normal forgetfulness. The stress of remembering is even more traumatic.
• Localised amnesia is the most common and is the inability to recall a specific period of time or event, such as accidents or war incidents.
• Generalised amnesia is when an individual loses their entire identity and cannot remember their own life story. Sometimes, this can be as bad as losing or forgetting one’s own skills and talents.
• Selective amnesia is the inability to recall some parts of the traumatic incidents but not all.
• Continuous amnesia is when patients have no memory of events up to and including the present time.
• Systematised amnesia is where an individual loses memory for certain places or people.