So first of all of course I don’t “‘believe’” you about your memory loss. I don’t even believe you’d believe I’d believe you. No, I know from a goddamn stretcher and I’ve read my DSM-IV. “‘Lacunar amnesia’”? More likely its pseudologia fantastica, pathological lying . . . file under M for Mythomania. Not fact or fiction but factition, the intentional fabrication of subjective complaints with no external incentive. By proxy. Its linked to high verbal skills and a rough childhood. Or if it is “‘lacunar amnesia,’” then its probably a symptom of Korsakoff’s, whose other symptoms include anhedonia,
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