“Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.” – Jean Baudrillard

Amnesia is a disease related to memory. It can be loss of large block of interrelated memories or a block out of a particular portion of incidents. The people suffering from amnesia finds difficult in learning and understanding newer things in life. It is a great barrier to information sharing and badly affects an individual. This condition can be temporary but it might also lead to a long term syndrome. We are mostly familiar with it in a romantic portrayal of characters in movies and television. However in reality it is quite frightening. Amnesia can occur in both the genders and also at any age.

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Many people are familiar with amnesia from the images portrayed by actors on television and movies. Despite the romanticized portrayal of the disease, millions of people around the world suffer for some form of amnesia. This condition is usually temporary, but can last for long periods of time. Dictionary.com defines amnesia as the loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, and shock.

The causes of amnesia can either be a head injury, prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals, or it can be brought on by traumatic events. In the latter case the body tries to keep the patient from recalling the blocked out memories until the patient is ready to do so. Drug addicts may experience similar memory loss similar to amnesia, but the cause is chemical in nature. Events that happened during blackouts caused by drugs will not return to a person’s memory when the toxic chemicals are removed from this system.

Amnesia affects different people in a different ways. Some victims will not be able to remember the previous day, while others will be unable to access huge portions of their memory. Currently, no cure exists for the condition. The best strategy is waiting until the memories of the stricken person return on their own. Amnesia strikes both genders and does not discriminate on basis of a person’s age.

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