Research says no treatment for amnesia...

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Retrograde amnesia is a type of amnesia in which someone is unable to recall events that occurred before the onset of amnesia. Retrograde amnesia results from damage to the brain regions which are closely associated with episodic/declarative memory: the medial temporal lobes and especially the hippocampus. Retrograde amnesia is usually caused by brain injury or disease. In this condition, individuals have trouble remembering events in their life that occurred before to the brain injury. These people do not lose all their memories, instead the memory loss is terrible for events that occured just before the injury; events from long ago are more likely to be safe. For example, if a man developed retrograde amnesia in middle age, he might have excellent memory for his childhood, nearly complete memories of young adulthood, and progressively less memory for the years leading up to his brain injury. Let's take Sagar for example here. There have been reports of persons with memory disorders being unable to remember that they are married, if the marriage took place shortly before the brain injury that caused the amnesia. Currently, there is no known way to restore memories which have been lost through retrograde amnesia. Well, there are other ways, but a permanent, definite treatment for retrograde amnesia is still being researched.

My question lies in that last sentence that I wrote. Atleast from my research and studies, I have foud that there is no known way to restore memories which have been lost through retrograde amnesia, so how is it possible for an operation to bring back those memories? I know bloopers are common in shows, but it just irked me that the BIGGEST twist in the show had to occur in the form of a blooper. Now the thing is when the writers could have easily incorporated Sagar's correct way to recover from amnesia, why didn't they? They could have easily stretched the storyline yet still shown his recovery the way amnesia is normally treated. Counseling techniques, hypnotherapy and drug therapy are depended on the most in the cases of psychological amnesia.

Another thing, when a person has amnesia, and in Sagar's case Retrograde amnesia, for that person it is TERRIBLY traumatic to know you're not like everyone else..Sagar, on the other hand, just needed to look into a mirror, be called "insane" and he accepted it just like that with a few tears and understandable pain...which is just so disturbing...Either he posesses high tolerance or wait another blooper? well analyzing his personality, Sagar definitely comes accross as a person who is definitely not so tolerant, so let's formally label this a blooper again.

Another major concern of mine, is Sagar hardly visits a psychiatrist on a regular basis. So, till now Sagar's condition/recovery was only dependant on drug therapy? This is so unbelievable. If Sagar's family was poor and couln't afford his medical treatment, then I would understand, but heck no, they are filthy rich, so why do they think about all these treatments a year later? Sagar's father was alive before Vidya married Sagar, so him being the head of the house, Sindoora could never have stopped him either.

Do you think television should progress to a more realistic form of story-telling or do you enjoy this fictional, glorified realsm of story-telling more?

I know the BIG QUESTION on the tip of your lips is, okay so we know all that, what's the point of the post? Well, I was bored and I was running out of ideas to post a discussion topic, so hence this blooper picketing😆 lol...

Keep smiling...

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Posted: 18 years ago
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hey soni... 😉
me back and guess what no good news YET!!! 😕
oh coming back to what you have written now we have seen that how they ran..east west south and north to get that BLOOD for DNA where it could have been done with just HAIR and now this sometime i dont thnk they are responsible actually we are 😆 😆
we are soo gullible types that show us anythn and we'll believe you sorts so we need to change thats about it!!

but i love your small brief about amnesia thanchuu never knew sooo much 😆

and bout your question... 😊

Do you think television should progress to a more realistic form of story-telling or do you enjoy this fictional, glorified realsm of story-telling more?

it cant as the TV shows are mostly watched by housewives and we fanatics of certain actors..wonder till when i can jhello all this tho😆 its getting tough on me..anyways..till Neil is there i will enjoy everything..as you get the same thing everywhere are Movies realistic??.. do u think? leave Indian movies lets talk about Hollywood..what about Matrix..Lord of the Rings..Harry potter aren't they Fiction..and they are doing wonders so noone is complaing and no one will and we will continue to see all this and enjoy as well!!!😆 welcome abord..soni Mahiwal...😆

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: nishtha

hey soni... 😉

Hey Nish😳
me back and guess what no good news YET!!! 😕

oh man, I hope it's soon, here's a hug 🤗

oh coming back to what you have written now we have seen that how they ran..east west south and north to get that BLOOD for DNA where it could have been done with just HAIR and now this sometime i dont thnk they are responsible actually we are 😆 😆
we are soo gullible types that show us anythn and we'll believe you sorts so we need to change thats about it!!

but i love your small brief about amnesia thanchuu never knew sooo much 😆

lolzzzz...well, you could see was so bored, so just wrote however little I know about amnesia...

and bout your question... 😊

Do you think television should progress to a more realistic form of story-telling or do you enjoy this fictional, glorified realsm of story-telling more?

it cant as the TV shows are mostly watched by housewives and we fanatics of certain actors..wonder till when i can jhello all this tho😆 its getting tough on me..anyways..till Neil is there i will enjoy everything..as you get the same thing everywhere are Movies realistic??.. do u think? leave Indian movies lets talk about Hollywood..what about Matrix..Lord of the Rings..Harry potter aren't they Fiction..and they are doing wonders so noone is complaing and no one will and we will continue to see all this and enjoy as well!!!😆 welcome abord..soni Mahiwal...😆

No, I don't mean movies, you can't expect a disney movie, like...like little mermaid to be all real😆 But since these type of tv shows, are dealing with real issues, perhaps...a little realsm..well anyway I agree with you, the only reason I watch this show at the moment is because of DK, their performances and their chemistry...Besides Sindoora and Tusshar and maybe Aniket no other character entices me as much as they used to in this show...

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Posted: 18 years ago
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well no i cant believe Little mermaid to be true..but i loved it so as finding nemo..chronicles of narnia and many more 😆 😆 😆

coming back to your question.. ok if we talk about Drama then i have a very good example..have you seen Bold & Beautiful ever?? i did i was addicted to it once upon a time 😆 😆 coz of my CRUSH there 😆

and trust me whatever twist Ekta brings in her serial are very much inspired with that..like dead man coming back... a girl is getting married 10 times.. with father then with eldest son then middle son and later happily married with the youngest one 😆 😆

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Originally posted by: nishtha

well no i cant believe Little mermaid to be true..but i loved it so as finding nemo..chronicles of narnia and many more 😆 😆 😆 haha same here😆

coming back to your question.. ok if we talk about Drama then i have a very good example..have you seen Bold & Beautiful ever?? i did i was addicted to it once upon a time 😆 😆 coz of my CRUSH there 😆 Never watched B n B, but I'm an addict of General Hospital, even though it's a regular soap opera, some of it's major twists are really interesting...some of them have never been shown on Indian soaps yet...

and trust me whatever twist Ekta brings in her serial are very much inspired with that..like dead man coming back... a girl is getting married 10 times.. with father then with eldest son then middle son and later happily married with the younger one 😆 😆

I agree on that, the multiple marriages, coming back from the dead is all there....hmmm...I await the day the BIG change occurs on these soaps...the progression not the regression...it's not like I completely hate these shows..if so I would never watch them, but at some point..you've reached your irritation/boredom limit...cause every show you watch they have so many similarities, sometimes it's like watching the same show...with different actors/sometimes the same...oh well.. it is a quarell isn't it? between the brain and the heart😆

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Wow Soni ji, what a coincidence, i was just learning about this in school yesterday!! 😛 And what a lovely topic, you've gone so much into detail that it's almost ... scary (?) how much it matches Sagar...!!

Hmm, the question you have is very good, so far every telly show has not ever shown the real truth about anything.. now, all this psychiatrist thing, hmm.. i think maybe the writers/creatives are substituting that with now Sagar getting all angry and throwing and hitting things? Maybe that will trigger an operation, perhaps? hmm..

Now, you are absolutely right about this, about Sagar just accepting that he's insane, ermm, wow? So he just lives with the fact that he is not oky.. and like i said before, i think this is where they are putting in the thing where Sagar has these furies (plural of "fury", i dunno if that sounds right :S) now, about him just not wanting to listen to anyone, he throws his medicine, he doesn't want to play games, doesn't want to do anything that makes me different from anyone else... So i think this is what they are doing to show that Sagar is upset about his problem, maybe?

Now about the medical treatment, urghh, people are so slow that they take so long to get it into their heads that Sagar NEEDS to have his recovery.. *knock knock*

Argh, just rambled now, hope you can make sense of what i've said 😕 😆 lovely topic, really got me thinking !!
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Soni as always very nicely written 👏 👏 👏 ..I guess your Neuropsychology major is comming in handy with the show huh? 😉 To answer your question yes I think the TV shows should be a little realistic when it comes to these things espeicially when the show's main story is based on this....In my point of view I thought that Tushar's way of showing Sagar the video was the perfect opportunity for Sagar to recover and a little logical as well...I know that after watching the movie and Bam he gets his memory back is a littl unbliveable but it would be logical if he got some of the memory back and it gradually progressed....I think the operation thing is tottaly out there...like you said amnesia can not be treated with an operation... 😊 But if the creatives have run out of ideas then to move the show forward then where it is right now it is the best idea 😛 ....And yes its true for a person like Sagar it would be really emorionally hard on him to be called insane...and maybe thats why he is being rebellious now and acting the way he is...I again just hope they get over this track soo before they loose more viewers....the next track should def have Sagar's recovery... 😳

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