Who am I? Recovering from retrograde amnesia

1. How would you begin the process of recovering your memory? Who would you turn to, where would you search, and how would you proceed?

I would first start off by trying to remember as far back as I could, which probably wouldn’t get me too far in trying to recover my recollections prior to the accident. I would then reach out to my parents and grandparents and have them tell me who I am starting with my childhood and so forth by using photo albums and things I have. I would also look through my laptop and phone as a guide to see what I was up to as of recently. Finally I would get in touch with my closest friends but more likely they would get in touch with me first and would do as I did with my parents by having them tell me about myself and who I was as a person with the kinds of relationships I had with them and others.

2. Please describe the emotional journey you imagine you would be going through as you attempt to reconstruct your life. Imagine the feelings you would have.

This would have to be the most difficult and most frustrating part of the whole ordeal. I don’t think I would be able to attend school or do much with my life for a while until I recovered all if not most of my memories before the accident. I probably wouldn’t be able to sleep normally and would be afraid of maintaining my relationships with people. My life would be as scary and depressing as I could possibly imagine it to be.

3. Suppose you were able to pick and choose the
memories you wanted to recover from your life. What types of memories would you
choose to retain and what types of memories might you decide to edit out of your
remembered experience? Positive, negative, painful, happy, angry, frightened,
etc. Please elaborate and explain some your decision making process.

I would choose them all, that’s what defines me as a person. I think all the positive memories along with the negative makes you a solid and strong individual. If one of those memories are missing from me then I would probably be a different person from who I am today. I look at it like a butterfly effect combined with a behavioral cusp that Makes an individual who he is with all those aspects of his feelings and experiences combined.