The Types of Amnesia

As a human being, psychological illness can attack whoever, everywhere, and everytime. Not only human, but also another organism, such as animals also sometimes feel about it. Sometimes, there's many of us had felt déjà vu. What is déjà vu? It's such a psychological phenomenon where the sufferer feel like she/he has ever seen it or even done it before it's forgotten. Sometimes, we can also feel spooky, whenever we turned our body--feeling that someone is watching us now, but there's nobody. You got more problem if you feel skeptical about that. Otherwise, it's okay. Because you'll forget it sooner. Oh my! What I've talked about! I'm gonna talk about amnesia but I talk about déjà vu. Forgive me!

Amnestic syndrome that happens is due to brain injury. So, the brain is a bit damaged, to control memories. The factors cause amnestic syndrome are:

1. Stroke

2. Brain swelling (Encephalitis)

3. There's not enough oxygen supply

4. Defiency of Vitamin B-1

5. Consuming alcohol too much

6. Tumors in the brain which controls memory

7. Alzheimer

Amnesia is an illness when you forget about all memories you've suppossed to remember or long term - short term memories. In some conditional, amnesia can be cured by therapy.

To the main topic, here are the types of amnesia:

1. Anterogade Amnesia

    It's probably the most difficult type of amnesia. Because the sufferrer can remember everything that happened before the event, such as accident, but can't form a new memories after that. So the sufferer will usually take a note and picture to every people they meet to recognize them in the next time. This type of amnesia cannot be cured by therapy or anything else.

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2. Retrogade Amnesia

    It usually caused by an injury or a traumatic experience. The sufferer can't remember anything that just happened and past. This is a well-known kind of amnesia. The sufferer forgets all memories, even the own name, family, etc. Even though, this type of amnesia can be cured by therapy.

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So, we can conclude that there's not only type of amnesia. Because it depends on the factors and effect--is it short term or long term. What we learn here, is precious. We must always be careful with our own body, especially our head. Why? It contains the brain. One of the most important parts in our body, it controls our memories, heart rate, mouth, feet, hand, and many more. As a human, if I have many mistakes in this article, please forgive me. And don't forget to fix the mistakes if there are.