The genius is on the left, the lunatic is on the right

Chapter 4 50 First Loves

In the movie "50 First Dates", the original cynical Ocean Park veterinarian Henry is completely attracted by a beautiful girl named Lucy, and he is determined to pursue Lucy desperately.However, Henry found that Lucy, who was pure and lovely in appearance, seemed to have "a bit of a problem". She couldn't remember what happened the day before. world, but at the end of each day, all memories are gone again.

Henry relentlessly pursues Lucy. For him, Lucy is the most familiar lover in his life, but for Lucy, Henry is a fresh, beautiful lover like first love. Indeed, Lucy Every day of my life is my first love.

At the end of the story, of course it is a happy ending. While the audience laments the beauty and movingness of love, they can't help but doubt the authenticity of the script.Now, we are going to talk about whether the strange symptoms manifested in Lucy are real, or are they imagined by the screenwriter?

In fact, the role of Lucy has a prototype. The symptoms of timed amnesia she exhibited are neurologically called Susak syndrome. This is a very rare case in medicine. So far, There are only 240 known individuals with Susak syndrome in the world.

A 19-year-old girl named Jess was originally a student of the Art Academy. She has a cheerful personality and a beautiful appearance. She is a very active student in the class and often participates in stage performances.If this development continues, she may become a famous movie star in the future.

One afternoon, when Jess was performing on the stage, she suddenly fainted. The classmates were shocked and rushed her to the hospital. A few hours later, Jess woke up, and she looked around strangely. After a circle, he covered his head with a pained expression on his face.The doctor hurriedly asked, but Jess yelled repeatedly: "My head hurts..." After some emergency treatment, Jess's headache eased a little, but the more terrible thing was yet to come, Jess lost her memory!

She didn't know any of the people around her, and she couldn't recognize the parents who came after hearing the news.Everyone was very nervous, and the doctor realized the seriousness of the problem.However, after asking around, the students all denied that Jess had suffered a blow to the head before she fainted, "She fainted suddenly!" The information provided by everyone was almost the same.

The difficult day finally passed, and Jess's parents barely rested in the chaos. They were looking forward to their daughter's full recovery after a night's rest.But the next day, everyone was disappointed and terrified.After Jess woke up, she still felt unfamiliar with everything around her. What was even more strange was that she also forgot what happened the day before, neither knowing that she was performing a stage play, nor that she fainted suddenly up.She is like a newborn baby, full of curiosity and ignorance about everything around her.

On the third day, the situation did not improve. Jess woke up from her sleep and completely forgot about the previous day. Her memory seemed to only last 24 hours. Every day was a brand new day for her.

The doctors felt helpless, unable to know the cause of Jess's amnesia, and there was no good way to treat it. Jess and her family, who slowly accepted this reality, could only deal with it through the most primitive methods. all of these.There are many notebooks around Jess. The first thing she does when she opens her eyes every day is to write down all the thoughts and new memories in her mind for checking the next day.

It was just a sudden coma, and the life of Jess's family was completely changed.Even Jess said dejectedly that she has no past, only the present.Unfortunately, this situation has lasted for more than ten years and has not changed.

The memory impairment alone is not the only pain for Jess. In fact, she also suffers from many irregular and pathological pains.Although every day of Jess's life was a real new beginning, there was nothing to be happy about. Whenever she tried to remember something, her head would ache so badly, the pain seemed so unbearable that Jess would even hug. Bumping his head against the edge of the bed.

Not only that, but she found that she also had problems with her visual ability. When writing a diary, she could not see the words on the paper clearly and had double images.She couldn't bear the bright light at all, and she also drew thick curtains during the day.Moreover, although she tried her best to listen to what the people around her said, she often couldn't hear clearly, and there was a buzzing noise in her head, as if there were countless flies flying around.These uncomfortable feelings tormented Jess almost every day, and her body was getting worse and worse, but the poor girl didn't remember what happened at all.

The brain-burning logic of a genius or a madman
If we are not in it, it may be difficult for us to understand the pain of Lucy and Jess and the people around them.Don't think that amnesia is as simple as not remembering some people and things. They will also forget some skills, and their ability to understand and express abstract things will be hindered. They will become irritable, dull, and their ability to cooperate will be greatly reduced. .

They have their own world. In this world, almost everything is chaotic. The pictures, colors, and aesthetics seem to have lost their original meaning. In a trance, the ridiculous concept of "two eyes, one nose, and one mouth, this is a person" will appear in my mind.

Perhaps we will never know their world, just as it is impossible for them to return to the world of normal people without effective rehabilitation.But sometimes, I have to admit that in their fragmented memory world that cannot be pieced together, there is very limited space for sadness and complaints, and their happiness is much higher than normal people.

(End of this chapter)