Memory Problems Quotes

“Rusty visualized his mind as being like a fishing net. The only thing he could remember were the little drops that clung to his mental netting.”
― Joan Frances Casey, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“My current age is, 'if I don't write it down within three seconds, I'll forget it.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“The patient mentioned that she compensates for her memory gaps by pretending that she recognizes people who claim to know her. In the follow-up section, later in the interview, she remarked, "I don't really have memories. I can basically tell you what people have told me, and then I have a memory of that, but it's not the actual memory."

These amnestic episodes have occurred without the use of drugs or alcohol and in the absence of acute medical illness, because the patient reports abstention from drugs or alcohol.”
― Marlene Steinberg, Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide