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Old 06-04-2012, 09:57 AM
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Default Dream-like episode? Amnesia? Please help

I was injured 6 months ago when I fell on my head on a concrete floor, landing on the left side of my forehead. I have problems with severe loss of short-term and immediate memory and mild loss of long-term memory. I also have speech problems, headaches, dizziness and problems with coordination.

My friend (who has changed his whole life around to be my caregiver since the accident) just informed me that I have been having, as he put it, “highly emotionally charged episodes,” that I have absolutely no recollection of. He said the last time was about 3 weeks ago and that it happened 4 times over a three-week period.

He said that it is always about the same thing, that I am essentially accusing him of cheating on me. What I say is almost word-for-word the same each time regardless of what he says, even that sometimes my response has nothing to do with what he immediately said. He said it was like I was stuck in a loop, and not even really responding to my immediate surroundings, although elements of the discussion were a twisted version of things we had talked about many times.

When he told me this, I was totally taken aback. If you asked me before he told me this, I would say that we have never had cross words with each other. We were best friends for a decade before we ever started dating and I couldn’t imagine him ever cheating on me. The whole thing sounds like he was having these discussions with someone else.

What disturbs me most about the whole thing is that I don’t remember any of it. I have no idea if it has happened before or with other people.

I suggested to him that if it ever happens again, on the same thing or a different topic, that he should do something that is totally incongruent with the situation and see how I respond.

I have no idea what this is or what to make of it.

Thank you for reading this and for any ideas of what this might be.
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