Several years ago I got hit by a car whilst cycling to work. A blow to my head gave me concussion and to this day I still can't remember the accident and several days after, including an overnight in hospital. Any the details I do know have been told to me by other people. It's odd having a gap in my memory.
Same, I got hit by a car while I was on a walk four years ago (I broke through the guy's windshield with my head, I'm talented) and I still can't remember anything about the accident or the ~5 minutes before it happened. I remember bits and pieces of the couple of months after, but not much. It's a weird thing.
I have a similar issue but I also get beaten up and hit int the head to make me not remember but I've been lucky and have had time to heal, some things come back faster some things still blocked out. EMDR helps walk you through it. Memory is fragile and if people do it on purpose it's makes the brain weak.
When Hank was explaining the definition of retrograde amnesia and how it affects your past memories, I had that slight glimmer of hope that he would say "anterograde amnesia is when you can't remember the future"
My sister had amnesia. Wasn't concussion induced as far as we know and the doctors never figured it out. But it wiped out like 3 or 4 years of memory. She lost all of her years in Pharmacy school and had to redo it. :( She's a pharmacist and doing well now, but she never got her memory of that time back.
This is the greatest upload yet. I hit my head in2007 and it was minor. I still have unresolved symptoms. This explains the symptoms better than a nuro doc.
My step mom was in a car crash 4 months ago. She has really bad amnesia. She don't even understand who my dad is when he visits her, even though they've been together for 20 years. She will remember fragments from here and there but she's very confused and nothing is coherent. Also she hasn't been forming new memories until recently, so now she will sometimes remember earlier events from the same day. It's so scary!
+Tom Mitchell I think it's a perfectly fine question to ask. It's precisely the kind of thing SciShow covers, it's a serious medical matter that's personally affected phantasm1234, and it's a much welcome change from the other puerility that infests the comments section.
I was in a car accident a few months ago where I got a moderate concussion. Immediately after I had issues with numbers (I knew the street I lived on but not the street address) and I couldn't remember anything from the past two months-ish but when people reminded me of things I could remember them. So I went through and read all my texts, emails, notes from classes trying to remember everything and it was really frustrating. I compared it to the filing cabinets were in my brain but the little dudes couldn't remember how to get there.
That's a really good description of how that feels man. It is the most frustrating thing in the world when you know you should know something, everything else in regards to that concept is crystal clear, yet this part is molasses. Then you try to get someone else to say it with hints and trying to say it in a different way because it is right there, but out of grasp. Also I'm curious if you experienced this part as well, for the first few months my mind would get stuck on the details it couldn't retrieve. Even if I tried to drop it and just move on I couldn't, it was like everything else would fade out and all I could see is where the missing piece should be, and until it was filled in, in some manner at least, my mind was stuck. Luckily that part is gone now. I still have empty spaces, but now I can just dismiss them.
Vatra yeah I got a little bit of that maddening sense that I couldn't remember something and I had to remember it but I couldn't. But it wasn't as bad as you described. Everyone's symptoms are different, I've heard of similar cases though. I also experienced a worsening of my depression and I was always really emotional. It was like someone turned my mood changer to only extremes. I was either really happy, really overwhelmed, really sad, ect.
Yeah head injuries are freaky, they can change all kinds of things. For example, to me my personality is the same. But several friends have told me I'm just slightly off now. Like noticeably different, yet not different enough to actually call me different (if that makes any sense at all)
That's exactly what it feels like! I got a concussion a few years ago, with lingering side effects, and the memory issues were terribly frustrating. A friend asked me what street I lived on, and for the life of me I couldn't remember! Basic calculations, even dividing by two, were simply impossible.
Good timing Sci Show. I had a concussion mountain biking about two weeks ago. Retrograde amnesia just the day the accident happened, because I remember being excited to go biking on my days off. For about 10 days after my memories could not be retained. Now I feel fairly normal, sometimes a little dreamy or foggy.
Amnesia can also occur after a seizure; I had a seizure during a tattoo, & woke up in the hospital with no recollection of the ambulance ride or my friend calling 911.
I can't remember anything about my friends from college. I had a concussion last year. I began watching this video thinking "If Hank is the one doing this video, I am going to cry because there would be nothing more perfect nor comforting" then lo and behold- he is here! (':
It is a remnant of our ancestors, when the peed they became very relaxed, and that shiver was to jolt them back to attention in case any predators were around.
"I wish that I could wake up with amnesiaaa...and forget about the stupid little things. Like the way it felt to fall asleep next to youuu and the memories I never can escape 'cause I'm not fine at all" 😊
OH I'M EARLY FOR ONCE!! Love you Sci Show! And thank you to all the patreons for supporting the show!! I would but.... student budget lol I cant do much for you guys but i introduced your show to a lot of my friends! So there's that at least haha Keep up the good work
I had anterograde at age 9 (1980) after riding my bike down 4 concrete stairs at a school and flipping over the handlebars. I was alone and it was later found out I laid there for nearly 15 minutes before popping up and heading home (luckily remembering where home was). Amnesia was discovered almost immediately after I tried to put my bike away and asked about a large cut on my arm saying the same thing literally 4 times. It took about 3 weeks to remember the ride home, but still don’t remember the actual accident.
Interesting. No one told me that brain surgery was known to cause amnesia! It took about a week for my anterograde amnesia to wear off. I still have no idea what happened during that time, nor will I ever know. But visitors said they had no problem wondering what to talk about when they came to sit by my bed, because I would repeat the same series of questions every time. Still don't know how often I repeated them, as in, how long I remembered the answers. But I was "awake" and "alert". There is one vague memory of the tired-looking nurse putting the pain med bolus button in my hand and telling me to use it if I was hurting, and after some moments of intense concentration in order to process his words I tried to respond in the affirmative while not understanding why I could no longer move half my body. The paralysis was something I became cognizant of in gradual stages. Huh, I've been learning a lot today!
A year and some change ago I was in a car accident that cracked my skull like an egg. There is a whole week of my life missing from my memory. I remember getting in bed one night (night before my accident) and then waking up in the hospital a week later. I'd been conscious for most of that week, but I have zero memory of it. They had me on anti seizure meds because my brain was pretty swollen. There are little bits and pieces that are missing from my past too. I can feel they are missing but they are impossible for me to grasp. It has also affected how I make memories now. It's hard to describe properly, but my memory making process doesn't function how did pre-crash. It still works, I mean obviously given I'm typing this, but I basically had to relearn how to remember things.
I had a concussion a few weeks ago and started having rediculous deja vu immediatly after. Then I started remembering dreams I had the night before. It was pretty interesting.
I had anterograde amnesia but in the middle of it I "woke up" and I remembered about a 5 second period of time before forgetting the next hour. The whole loss of memory was a two hour period
some time ago there was on tv this italian doctor who was involved in a car crash, and as a result he forgot 12 years of his life. he couldn't recognize his grownup sons, was firmly convinced that it was the same day of october of twelve years before (he even remembered that said day was a tuesday!!) and wouldn't believe his colleagues telling him that he had forgotten 12 years of his life, until they showed him a calendar on the latest model of ipad, which twelve years prior was basically science fiction. a pretty extreme case
I got retrograde amnesia of about six months while doing acting for a mockumentary and a stunt went wrong. I hit my head on concrete from a fair drop. I went into shock and lost six months of my memory including the moments leading up to my injury. Thankfully I recovered a lot of my memories - except those of the girl I was dating, I had to end it eventually because I just didn't feel anything for her anymore. While fuzzy, I can now remember a lot of that period in my life though.
i had a minor concussion, and had super minor amnesia that only lasted about a half hour. I was riding a horse, he spooked while I mounted, and I my head hit a piece of wood, I bounced, and hit my side on another. I now remember falling off, but I don't remember landing (I was knocked out), and I had a long series of dreams before I came to. apparently, though, I was only out a couple seconds. when I came to, I was on the ground and the memories slowly and fuzzily came back. for the next half hour, I kept tuning out and then suddenly realizing I was still at the barn and needed to pay attention. my trainer didnt know i had been knocked out and put me back on the horse- I was so dazed, I kept forgetting I was on a horse!!
I had amnesia when I was 7, all I remember is being on the swing at the park with my friend - then I was staring at a white ceiling in a hospital bed.. My friend said I had fell back off the swing and got up asking who he was and where were we etc, he took me home and my mum told me that I didn't even know who she or I was... I don't remember much of the fall other than feeling my weight slip and I don't remember anything in between swing and hospital... Happened in the blink of an eye from my perspective and always kinda creeps me out when I think back on it.
I had a concussion from a skateboarding fall and had retro and anterograde amnesia for about 4 hours after it happened. I didn't know what season of the year it was, nor the day of the week, and forgot that my wife was pregnant. Every 3-5 minutes I asked what happened to me, did I fall? I met my doctors in the ER for the first time, an un-funny amount times. Thankfully my ability to remember things came back to me.
After a head injury, I couldn't hold conversations anymore. I knew what I wanted to say in my head but it wouldn't come out of my mouth. Lasted over a year until I fully recovered. I was lucky enough to have the world's leading expert in memory's help so that was a big bonus.
I had a concussion once and i've forgotten the whole day! at least, thats what i think happened. I remember waking up on the couch and my grandma was there. I was like, 'What happened?' and she told me some big guy at school ran into me and i fell back against an iron pole on the playground with my head. I don't really know if it was the same day or not. It's really hazy. Apparently we immediately went to the doctor and the doctor sad i had a concussion. Then i had to lay on the couch for a whole week because it hurt like hell. I don't remember anything that happened. I asked if i fainted or something, because i had no memory of it, but apparently i just stood up after and went to the doctor. Man, i really wanna know what happened that day. I guess i'll never find out.
I had a pretty bad concussion over a year ago. I had both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. It happened during a football game, and the last thing I remembered was getting my uniform on, then I woke up in the hospital the next morning. Let's just say I was done playing football after that lol
I suffered a severe concussion in baseball (by one of the best pitchers in the state)! It completely ruined me for months. I had severe retrograde amnesia, I didn't even know my birthday! I also used to forget what I was saying mid sentence and I kept always repeating myself (which I guess would be Anterograde Amnesia too). Now, 3 years later I still have minor trouble focusing and remembering common things. Concussions are a horrible thing! They are a serious injury, NEVER overlook them! Please!
Except Dory in finding Nemo was deceiving Marlin into thinking she had amnesia. Dory never actually had amnesia, instead she uses that story as a survival strategy to gain the protection of other fish. There's evidence that she has neither retrograde amnesia nor anterograde amnesia. Dory said she was born with amnesia, so she can't have retrograde. A counterexample for anterograde is that she said she remembered that there was a boat and direction it went. She later "remembered" "P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sidney" which she used to act as if she was healing, in order to motivate Marlin some more. If it was really anterograde amnesia, such an act would be completely impossible.
shoutitallloud Why (do) beard(s) (grow) faster than (normal) hairs? Also(,) why (do) (fingernails) grow faster than (toenails?). Everything in parentheses was an edit of your original comment.
+Ryan Whitaker Well, using "normal" would be superfluous at best. Beard is not abnormal hair, and that's besides "hair" being colloquially used to reference the hair on your head and "beard" as the hair on the bottom part of your face.
i had temporary memory loss when I fell of my bike when I was 22. It was quite interesting, couldn't remember what day or month it was and what I did ll day. Luckily people helped me up and cared of my wounds. Now most of the time I don't know what day or month it is but it's not really that important so it doesn't interfere with my life that much.
I had a bad concussion in June and I am still dealing with memory issues. my doctors say that because thr body is so busy trying to fix the other larger problems the concussion caused, things like memory and 'executive functioning' are kinda ignored for a while.
I understand as I had an episode of transient global amnesia, and am still dealing with the aftermath. It happened on April 13, 2022 and I am a completely different person... it stinks.
My mom and i were in a car accident when i was twelve. I didnt know who my mom or any one else was. Some people noticed………… i dont think anyone else did and not at fifty two ive had my memories back since October of 2022 when i went of the nightmare that is klonopin that my dr gave me. 1.5mg……. Way too much. Now I remember loosing all of my memories before twelve. Its serious disturbing and surreal.
When I was in the 8th grade, I got into a car accident, where I got a "possible" concussion. I was in a daze for a little bit.I even forgot where we were going. I then got a headache. I then went to a zoo lights thing for my cousins birthday, and my eyes started to hurt like hell. We then went to her house, and after cake, I started to feel like shit. I threw up on our way home and went to the hospital for a few hours.
Not being able to make new memories is much worse than forgetting old memories. The former means u can't do daily activities and everyday someone has to repeat to u who is who and what you've done recently.
Bike accident, bumped my head with a loud crack, scrapped and bruised but I remembered everything alright. Went to bed that night, woke up 16 hours later with a splitting headache. Doc said twere a mild concussion. Luckily had a helmet on, probably would've been less mild otherwise...
How to cure memory and learning issues caused by mental illness like anxiety and bipolar? Is there a way to recover cognitive functions if you had mental issues since early life?
I know someone who got retrograde amnesia from a concussion. Some guy pushed her and she hit a wall. She went to the hospital and couldn't remember the whole day.
5 years ago I was hit in the forehead by a swinging tree trunk and to this day I can't remember anything that happened between that moment and when I was in A&E.
Interesting little tidbit--concussions can cause depression. The imbalance in the brain (that lack of motivation) can lead to psychiatric effects that last weeks to even months after the initial injury.
I like that you mentioned the cartoons and how the show ends when they get hit on the head again and regain their memories... But isn't that inaccurate or is it something that has actually happened? If I hit someone on the head who has amnesia won't I just make them worse? Why do cartoons do that? Where did that idea come from? I wish you had said something about that D:
I was hit by a car a few months ago and having short term memory loss is a pain in the butt expecially as a college student a can read an entire article for one of my classes and not remember any of it a few minutes later. Plus my attention span is that of an 8 year old. On top of that I have headaches all the time now.
Hey! I love your show. I was wondering if you could do a show on, C.T.E. and head injuries. Even though C.T.E. is only diagnosed in death, I am showing the signs of it. If you could do a show, for awareness, that would be awesome.
my friend was at the school park on the swings and she fell off and hit a bar and forgot who she was and who her family was luckily she had a friend with her
Interesting video. This has nothing to do with this video, but does anyone know why youtube videos I have watched no longer show watched? and is there a way to fix it so they will stay watched. Yes I'm logged in and no I was not logged out when i watched them.
I lost the love of my life to concussion induced amnesia. She doesn't know who I am anymore so all I can do is be a friendly stranger. Thanks for the video Hank.
I'm in 8th grade and I can't remember much from any other grade in middle school. My memory for really bad in 7th, but now I recognize dreams after I've had them more often and be conscious of more. Am I dying? T_T
Memory issues suck. I don't have amnesia but I forget things like Dory, although not as fast. I never tell people because they'll blurt out "UGH ME TOO!!!!!" like, no. If you did, you'd be understanding.
I just learned that my family and I were lucky that our grandma only forgot how she fell and hit her head on the oven and not weeks or even years of her life... shit, that's intense.
Some clarification on this would be nice but since the video is 2 days old I doubt you will see it. You said there are 2 kinds of amnesia but Ive known someone who was diagnosed with transient global amnesia. Does this one just fall into one of those two categories? Or is it something different all in its own?
I contacted a friend from high school some time ago, he didnt remember me, turns out he dodnt remember anything before last winter when he got a snow accident
How cool would it be to get amnesia that only removes all memory of Game of Thrones. Its worth a bash on the head and a few bruised brain cells to get to watch the whole thing again!
happened to me few years ago when i hit my head, dont rember a good 12 hours before i fell, just waking up that morning eating breakfast then my next memory is the next night waking up in hospital with no idea how i got there scary stuff
Heck, I once got bonked on the head and didn't get a concussion, and still had transient global (retrograde) amnesia for awhile afterward (awhile meaning minutes to hours)
Amnesia: To forget something you did. The disorder is generally diagnosed by spouses, who remember something that you didn’t do. from Dr. Mezmer’s Dictionary of Bad Psychology, at doctormezmer.com
Several years ago I got hit by a car whilst cycling to work. A blow to my head gave me concussion and to this day I still can't remember the accident and several days after, including an overnight in hospital. Any the details I do know have been told to me by other people. It's odd having a gap in my memory.
I've got something similar man, I'm missing a week of my life. It was also a car accident for me, only I was in the car.
Same, I got hit by a car while I was on a walk four years ago (I broke through the guy's windshield with my head, I'm talented) and I still can't remember anything about the accident or the ~5 minutes before it happened. I remember bits and pieces of the couple of months after, but not much. It's a weird thing.
I have a similar issue but I also get beaten up and hit int the head to make me not remember but I've been lucky and have had time to heal, some things come back faster some things still blocked out. EMDR helps walk you through it. Memory is fragile and if people do it on purpose it's makes the brain weak.
@@13vatra I had a similar occurrence also except a work place accident.
The only kind of amnesia that i've had was causes by heavy drinking
As long as I remember I've never had amnesia.
Not funny! I am dealing with real amnesia.
Are you sure? Think about it.
@@elaineowen2177 me too
When Hank was explaining the definition of retrograde amnesia and how it affects your past memories, I had that slight glimmer of hope that he would say "anterograde amnesia is when you can't remember the future"
My sister had amnesia. Wasn't concussion induced as far as we know and the doctors never figured it out. But it wiped out like 3 or 4 years of memory. She lost all of her years in Pharmacy school and had to redo it. :( She's a pharmacist and doing well now, but she never got her memory of that time back.
Sorry to hear, I had an attack of transient global amnesia and have never been the same. It is awful.
This is the greatest upload yet. I hit my head in2007 and it was minor. I still have unresolved symptoms. This explains the symptoms better than a nuro doc.
Last time I was this early,
Wait never mind, I don't remember.
My step mom was in a car crash 4 months ago. She has really bad amnesia. She don't even understand who my dad is when he visits her, even though they've been together for 20 years. She will remember fragments from here and there but she's very confused and nothing is coherent. Also she hasn't been forming new memories until recently, so now she will sometimes remember earlier events from the same day. It's so scary!
Speaking of brain injuries, can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
I've seen this comment before
phantasm1234 why do you comment this on every video
+Tom Mitchell
I think it's a perfectly fine question to ask. It's precisely the kind of thing SciShow covers, it's a serious medical matter that's personally affected phantasm1234, and it's a much welcome change from the other puerility that infests the comments section.
I was in a car accident a few months ago where I got a moderate concussion. Immediately after I had issues with numbers (I knew the street I lived on but not the street address) and I couldn't remember anything from the past two months-ish but when people reminded me of things I could remember them. So I went through and read all my texts, emails, notes from classes trying to remember everything and it was really frustrating. I compared it to the filing cabinets were in my brain but the little dudes couldn't remember how to get there.
That's a really good description of how that feels man. It is the most frustrating thing in the world when you know you should know something, everything else in regards to that concept is crystal clear, yet this part is molasses. Then you try to get someone else to say it with hints and trying to say it in a different way because it is right there, but out of grasp. Also I'm curious if you experienced this part as well, for the first few months my mind would get stuck on the details it couldn't retrieve. Even if I tried to drop it and just move on I couldn't, it was like everything else would fade out and all I could see is where the missing piece should be, and until it was filled in, in some manner at least, my mind was stuck. Luckily that part is gone now. I still have empty spaces, but now I can just dismiss them.
Vatra yeah I got a little bit of that maddening sense that I couldn't remember something and I had to remember it but I couldn't. But it wasn't as bad as you described. Everyone's symptoms are different, I've heard of similar cases though. I also experienced a worsening of my depression and I was always really emotional. It was like someone turned my mood changer to only extremes. I was either really happy, really overwhelmed, really sad, ect.
Yeah head injuries are freaky, they can change all kinds of things. For example, to me my personality is the same. But several friends have told me I'm just slightly off now. Like noticeably different, yet not different enough to actually call me different (if that makes any sense at all)
That's exactly what it feels like! I got a concussion a few years ago, with lingering side effects, and the memory issues were terribly frustrating. A friend asked me what street I lived on, and for the life of me I couldn't remember! Basic calculations, even dividing by two, were simply impossible.
Good timing Sci Show. I had a concussion mountain biking about two weeks ago. Retrograde amnesia just the day the accident happened, because I remember being excited to go biking on my days off. For about 10 days after my memories could not be retained. Now I feel fairly normal, sometimes a little dreamy or foggy.
Amnesia can also occur after a seizure; I had a seizure during a tattoo, & woke up in the hospital with no recollection of the ambulance ride or my friend calling 911.
I can't remember anything about my friends from college. I had a concussion last year. I began watching this video thinking "If Hank is the one doing this video, I am going to cry because there would be nothing more perfect nor comforting" then lo and behold- he is here! (':
But why is there concussion around my... wait what was it again?
Why do i shiver after i pee?
is your bathroom particularly cold?
SuperAlvin I also get pee shivers don't worry
I also get shivers after peeing.
It is not cold in my home or in the bathroom.
why do you exhale as you pee?
It is a remnant of our ancestors, when the peed they became very relaxed, and that shiver was to jolt them back to attention in case any predators were around.
"I wish that I could wake up with amnesiaaa...and forget about the stupid little things. Like the way it felt to fall asleep next to youuu and the memories I never can escape 'cause I'm not fine at all" 😊
is anyone else getting messed up thumbnails?
Probably Not Cereal so am i
Are you talking about the red bar? That's UA-cam's new way of telling you how much of a video you have watched. Yes, it looks ugly as hell.
Xletricity no im talking about the long, vertical thumbnails with black bars on the sides
Hmm... I'm not getting that trouble.
I remember nothing about my concussion, and didn't even realize that I had been knocked out.
that is not true. after my first concussions i used to have memory problems. Now, I don't remember having them anymore.
OH I'M EARLY FOR ONCE!!
Love you Sci Show! And thank you to all the patreons for supporting the show!! I would but.... student budget lol
I cant do much for you guys but i introduced your show to a lot of my friends! So there's that at least haha
Keep up the good work
I had anterograde at age 9 (1980) after riding my bike down 4 concrete stairs at a school and flipping over the handlebars. I was alone and it was later found out I laid there for nearly 15 minutes before popping up and heading home (luckily remembering where home was). Amnesia was discovered almost immediately after I tried to put my bike away and asked about a large cut on my arm saying the same thing literally 4 times. It took about 3 weeks to remember the ride home, but still don’t remember the actual accident.
Interesting. No one told me that brain surgery was known to cause amnesia! It took about a week for my anterograde amnesia to wear off. I still have no idea what happened during that time, nor will I ever know. But visitors said they had no problem wondering what to talk about when they came to sit by my bed, because I would repeat the same series of questions every time. Still don't know how often I repeated them, as in, how long I remembered the answers. But I was "awake" and "alert". There is one vague memory of the tired-looking nurse putting the pain med bolus button in my hand and telling me to use it if I was hurting, and after some moments of intense concentration in order to process his words I tried to respond in the affirmative while not understanding why I could no longer move half my body. The paralysis was something I became cognizant of in gradual stages. Huh, I've been learning a lot today!
A year and some change ago I was in a car accident that cracked my skull like an egg. There is a whole week of my life missing from my memory. I remember getting in bed one night (night before my accident) and then waking up in the hospital a week later. I'd been conscious for most of that week, but I have zero memory of it. They had me on anti seizure meds because my brain was pretty swollen. There are little bits and pieces that are missing from my past too. I can feel they are missing but they are impossible for me to grasp. It has also affected how I make memories now. It's hard to describe properly, but my memory making process doesn't function how did pre-crash. It still works, I mean obviously given I'm typing this, but I basically had to relearn how to remember things.
I had a concussion a few weeks ago and started having rediculous deja vu immediatly after. Then I started remembering dreams I had the night before. It was pretty interesting.
I had anterograde amnesia but in the middle of it I "woke up" and I remembered about a 5 second period of time before forgetting the next hour. The whole loss of memory was a two hour period
some time ago there was on tv this italian doctor who was involved in a car crash, and as a result he forgot 12 years of his life.
he couldn't recognize his grownup sons, was firmly convinced that it was the same day of october of twelve years before (he even remembered that said day was a tuesday!!) and wouldn't believe his colleagues telling him that he had forgotten 12 years of his life, until they showed him a calendar on the latest model of ipad, which twelve years prior was basically science fiction.
a pretty extreme case
Thanks! I am seriously looking for ways to lose my memories forever. Hopefully I am successful this time.
please update me on your research
@@flyingfranky not successful 🗿
@@kaeyamain3083 mood
@@kaeyamain3083 but also,, ah that’s a shame
Has SciShow already done an episode on amnesia? I can't remember.
Lately i've been having memory problems.
Thought i should see this.
Useful video btw.
I'm watching this video for the first time. How did my comment appeared here
The bright lights in the studio are reflecting off of Hank's glasses. If you pause the video just right, you can watch all the producers filming him.
I got retrograde amnesia of about six months while doing acting for a mockumentary and a stunt went wrong. I hit my head on concrete from a fair drop. I went into shock and lost six months of my memory including the moments leading up to my injury. Thankfully I recovered a lot of my memories - except those of the girl I was dating, I had to end it eventually because I just didn't feel anything for her anymore.
While fuzzy, I can now remember a lot of that period in my life though.
i had a minor concussion, and had super minor amnesia that only lasted about a half hour. I was riding a horse, he spooked while I mounted, and I my head hit a piece of wood, I bounced, and hit my side on another. I now remember falling off, but I don't remember landing (I was knocked out), and I had a long series of dreams before I came to. apparently, though, I was only out a couple seconds. when I came to, I was on the ground and the memories slowly and fuzzily came back. for the next half hour, I kept tuning out and then suddenly realizing I was still at the barn and needed to pay attention. my trainer didnt know i had been knocked out and put me back on the horse- I was so dazed, I kept forgetting I was on a horse!!
I had amnesia when I was 7, all I remember is being on the swing at the park with my friend - then I was staring at a white ceiling in a hospital bed.. My friend said I had fell back off the swing and got up asking who he was and where were we etc, he took me home and my mum told me that I didn't even know who she or I was... I don't remember much of the fall other than feeling my weight slip and I don't remember anything in between swing and hospital... Happened in the blink of an eye from my perspective and always kinda creeps me out when I think back on it.
Thanks, my dad just had a concussion, this is helpful, just in case.
I had a concussion from a skateboarding fall and had retro and anterograde amnesia for about 4 hours after it happened. I didn't know what season of the year it was, nor the day of the week, and forgot that my wife was pregnant. Every 3-5 minutes I asked what happened to me, did I fall? I met my doctors in the ER for the first time, an un-funny amount times. Thankfully my ability to remember things came back to me.
I'm always reminded of the movie "50 first dates" when I see anterograde amnesia, but Dory is a much more fun example :D
After a head injury, I couldn't hold conversations anymore. I knew what I wanted to say in my head but it wouldn't come out of my mouth. Lasted over a year until I fully recovered.
I was lucky enough to have the world's leading expert in memory's help so that was a big bonus.
My head hurts when i try to remember things.. and i can't remember things for too long idk what's wrong😕
Im gonna break my brain to reatart my whole life
emos be like- WAIT IM JOKING
why
WHY
I had a concussion once and i've forgotten the whole day! at least, thats what i think happened. I remember waking up on the couch and my grandma was there. I was like, 'What happened?' and she told me some big guy at school ran into me and i fell back against an iron pole on the playground with my head. I don't really know if it was the same day or not. It's really hazy. Apparently we immediately went to the doctor and the doctor sad i had a concussion. Then i had to lay on the couch for a whole week because it hurt like hell. I don't remember anything that happened. I asked if i fainted or something, because i had no memory of it, but apparently i just stood up after and went to the doctor. Man, i really wanna know what happened that day. I guess i'll never find out.
I had a pretty bad concussion over a year ago. I had both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. It happened during a football game, and the last thing I remembered was getting my uniform on, then I woke up in the hospital the next morning. Let's just say I was done playing football after that lol
I suffered a severe concussion in baseball (by one of the best pitchers in the state)! It completely ruined me for months. I had severe retrograde amnesia, I didn't even know my birthday! I also used to forget what I was saying mid sentence and I kept always repeating myself (which I guess would be Anterograde Amnesia too). Now, 3 years later I still have minor trouble focusing and remembering common things. Concussions are a horrible thing! They are a serious injury, NEVER overlook them! Please!
Except Dory in finding Nemo was deceiving Marlin into thinking she had amnesia. Dory never actually had amnesia, instead she uses that story as a survival strategy to gain the protection of other fish. There's evidence that she has neither retrograde amnesia nor anterograde amnesia. Dory said she was born with amnesia, so she can't have retrograde. A counterexample for anterograde is that she said she remembered that there was a boat and direction it went. She later "remembered" "P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sidney" which she used to act as if she was healing, in order to motivate Marlin some more. If it was really anterograde amnesia, such an act would be completely impossible.
It _would_ explain all those impeccably timed flashbacks in Finding Dory.
yeah. yeah fuckyou Dori
Ctrl H as far as anthropomorphic animals go, I'd say animals that cannibalize each other like Praying Mantis' would be much worse.
Heyyyyyy Film Theory
are there a link between head injuries and being easaliy anger/ frustrated / depressed
Bad TBI in car wreck 4 years ago and I will never remember it. Good thing, really.
Why beard grows faster than hairs? Also why palm nails grows faster than foot nails?
shoutitallloud you edited your comment yet still failed to use grammar
Ryan Whitaker
Sorry, I'm not native english speaker. Would you please point my mistake?
shoutitallloud
Why (do) beard(s) (grow) faster than (normal) hairs? Also(,) why (do) (fingernails) grow faster than (toenails?).
Everything in parentheses was an edit of your original comment.
+Ryan Whitaker Well, using "normal" would be superfluous at best.
Beard is not abnormal hair, and that's besides "hair" being colloquially used to reference the hair on your head and "beard" as the hair on the bottom part of your face.
i had temporary memory loss when I fell of my bike when I was 22. It was quite interesting, couldn't remember what day or month it was and what I did ll day. Luckily people helped me up and cared of my wounds. Now most of the time I don't know what day or month it is but it's not really that important so it doesn't interfere with my life that much.
I had a bad concussion in June and I am still dealing with memory issues. my doctors say that because thr body is so busy trying to fix the other larger problems the concussion caused, things like memory and 'executive functioning' are kinda ignored for a while.
I understand as I had an episode of transient global amnesia, and am still dealing with the aftermath. It happened on April 13, 2022 and I am a completely different person... it stinks.
nice segue. keep them coming.
My mom and i were in a car accident when i was twelve. I didnt know who my mom or any one else was. Some people noticed………… i dont think anyone else did and not at fifty two ive had my memories back since October of 2022 when i went of the nightmare that is klonopin that my dr gave me. 1.5mg……. Way too much. Now I remember loosing all of my memories before twelve. Its serious disturbing and surreal.
When I was in the 8th grade, I got into a car accident, where I got a "possible" concussion. I was in a daze for a little bit.I even forgot where we were going. I then got a headache. I then went to a zoo lights thing for my cousins birthday, and my eyes started to hurt like hell. We then went to her house, and after cake, I started to feel like shit. I threw up on our way home and went to the hospital for a few hours.
***** I lived to tell the tale ;D
Not being able to make new memories is much worse than forgetting old memories. The former means u can't do daily activities and everyday someone has to repeat to u who is who and what you've done recently.
Bike accident, bumped my head with a loud crack, scrapped and bruised but I remembered everything alright. Went to bed that night, woke up 16 hours later with a splitting headache. Doc said twere a mild concussion. Luckily had a helmet on, probably would've been less mild otherwise...
How to cure memory and learning issues caused by mental illness like anxiety and bipolar? Is there a way to recover cognitive functions if you had mental issues since early life?
I know someone who got retrograde amnesia from a concussion. Some guy pushed her and she hit a wall. She went to the hospital and couldn't remember the whole day.
5 years ago I was hit in the forehead by a swinging tree trunk and to this day I can't remember anything that happened between that moment and when I was in A&E.
Interesting little tidbit--concussions can cause depression. The imbalance in the brain (that lack of motivation) can lead to psychiatric effects that last weeks to even months after the initial injury.
Can you guys make a wideo on Wendelstein 7X?????
You better like the video before you forget.
I've had a concussion....a little freaked out now LOL
I like that you mentioned the cartoons and how the show ends when they get hit on the head again and regain their memories... But isn't that inaccurate or is it something that has actually happened? If I hit someone on the head who has amnesia won't I just make them worse? Why do cartoons do that? Where did that idea come from? I wish you had said something about that D:
I was hit by a car a few months ago and having short term memory loss is a pain in the butt expecially as a college student a can read an entire article for one of my classes and not remember any of it a few minutes later. Plus my attention span is that of an 8 year old. On top of that I have headaches all the time now.
me: *gets head injury and can’t remember what i was doing that caused the injury*
me: scishow explain
Hey! I love your show. I was wondering if you could do a show on, C.T.E. and head injuries. Even though C.T.E. is only diagnosed in death, I am showing the signs of it. If you could do a show, for awareness, that would be awesome.
my friend was at the school park on the swings and she fell off and hit a bar and forgot who she was and who her family was luckily she had a friend with her
Interesting video.
This has nothing to do with this video, but does anyone know why youtube videos I have watched no longer show watched? and is there a way to fix it so they will stay watched. Yes I'm logged in and no I was not logged out when i watched them.
I had bicycle accident once, and I still don't remember a period of time shortly before, and several hours after.
This is why my dad dosn’t want me to hit my head really hard... 😂 sksksksksksksksks and i oop
I lost the love of my life to concussion induced amnesia. She doesn't know who I am anymore so all I can do is be a friendly stranger. Thanks for the video Hank.
Did she remember everything ?
is this an explanation for Killary's "pneumonia"?
Could you do an episode on nootropics? How do they work and is it worth it for college students to take?
Why does amnesia only(or is it?) cause memory loss?Why is the patient still able to remember how to speak,walk,etc?
Can you please explain what HGH(Human Growth Hormone) is, what supplements of this hormone does to the body and if it is safe?
I'm in 8th grade and I can't remember much from any other grade in middle school. My memory for really bad in 7th, but now I recognize dreams after I've had them more often and be conscious of more. Am I dying? T_T
Fool!
I got fucked up by a shed while snowboarding and i have no idea how it happened.
Peter you know what that shed might have sexually assaulted me!
I know the shed's name.
Shedugh Mungus
Are you sure it was the shed? Could've been aliens.
HEALTH SCISHOW!!!!!! YES!!!!
Memory issues suck. I don't have amnesia but I forget things like Dory, although not as fast. I never tell people because they'll blurt out "UGH ME TOO!!!!!" like, no. If you did, you'd be understanding.
I just learned that my family and I were lucky that our grandma only forgot how she fell and hit her head on the oven and not weeks or even years of her life... shit, that's intense.
Can you do a video on Alopecia Areata?
Some clarification on this would be nice but since the video is 2 days old I doubt you will see it. You said there are 2 kinds of amnesia but Ive known someone who was diagnosed with transient global amnesia. Does this one just fall into one of those two categories? Or is it something different all in its own?
can science nullify alchohol liver,kidney,brain damage? so we can drink vodka like water? xD
Is anterograde amnesia what the guy in Memento had?
Please do an episode about torn ligaments
I have a QQ! What is the difference between chlorine and oxygen bleach? What are the environmental effects of the two?
I wonder if I have ever had amnesia before? Well I don't really remember.
I contacted a friend from high school some time ago, he didnt remember me, turns out he dodnt remember anything before last winter when he got a snow accident
Could you please do a Video about Epilepsi
Funny, I was just thinking about Amnesia yesterday...
I have a question! How is it that different species of animals can evolve similarly but some animals of the same species can evolve differently?
How cool would it be to get amnesia that only removes all memory of Game of Thrones.
Its worth a bash on the head and a few bruised brain cells to get to watch the whole thing again!
1:50 Dory is faking it
2:16 HAHAHA memory pun
Can you guys make more videos about Chemistry?
If I forget that Patreon exists and therefore didn't subscribe to SciShow donation, should I check a doctor or Healthcare Triage?
happened to me few years ago when i hit my head, dont rember a good 12 hours before i fell, just waking up that morning eating breakfast then my next memory is the next night waking up in hospital with no idea how i got there scary stuff
How you going today?
Heck, I once got bonked on the head and didn't get a concussion, and still had transient global (retrograde) amnesia for awhile afterward (awhile meaning minutes to hours)
Why do dogs shake their leg when scratched?
Jesus Christ it's Jason Bourne!!
i just want to change and forget people around me and start a newlife so i'm interested to have a amnesia to forget paintfulness of my life.
Amnesia: To forget something you did. The disorder is generally diagnosed by spouses, who remember something that you didn’t do.
from Dr. Mezmer’s Dictionary of Bad Psychology, at doctormezmer.com
Couldn't use Memento as an example. Had to play it safe and use Finding Nemo.