How to write about Dissociative Amnesia AND GET IT RIGHT. WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? Really– who am I? This is the question asked repeatedly by a person suffering from Dissociative Amnesia. It’s distressing to say the least. Who are you? Is the other question they ask over and over, because they may have no memories of their …
RETROGRADE AMNESIAS Recently, I got the privilege to assist Denise Hunter with her latest book “Before We Were Us” (just released in September, it’s great – go read it!) where the heroine suffers a severe head injury and gets amnesia. Denise needed to use temporally-graded retrograde amnesia for this story. The heroine forgets her current boyfriend (the hero had the …