It's an old thread, but I find it quite useless to create a new one which is related to the title of this thread. But I have a question, which would fall off-topic in pretty much every other thread, therefore, reviving this old (and forgotten
) thread.
I had a discussion with a friend this morning about someone I kno-... we know. Though he never met the person I meant nor ever talked to her on MSN, she was quite often a subject to talk about. Anyway, something quite disastrous happened to that person.
Without any warning, she suddenly
forgot stuff. A (light) case of amnesia (memory loss, for those who are not familiar with it) that is something that is definite. Now my question is, is 'stress' able to burden the mind enough to trigger a case of a noticing memory loss?
A little experience of myself with her is quite quickly told. She didn't recognize me. She didn't know my name, my relationship to her or who I was in general. Though that could be taken as a joke, I became alarmed when she didn't recognize her friends anymore, her boyfriend and
some of her family. She still know her parents.
The friend I talked about this morning is not convinced that stress is able to trigger something like that, I, on the other hand, do believe it is possible.