Amnesia is when your memory has been disturbed. You can gat amnesia if you damage your brain, through trauma or disease, or using drugs. You can also get amnesia when you are old.

There are many different types of amnesia. Here are the most common ones:

• Anterograde amnesia- this is when you cannot make new memories. In other words if someone tells you something new or anything at all you will not remember it. You can also get this when you damage your brain.
• Traumatic amnesia- is when you lose your memory for a period of time after something traumatic happens. Head injuries are the most common way to get traumatic amnesia, like in a car accident.
• Korsaloff’s Syndrome- is a type of memory syndrome. It is cause by long-term alcoholism. It causes you brain damage due to Vitamin B1 deficiency and lack of nutrients.
• Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event. It makes you forget a whole memory or events that happen in your life.
• Fungue State- this is cause by psychological trauma and is only temporary. It is when you cannot remember who you are or you think you are someone else or you cannot remember your past.
• Childhood amnesia- is when you cannot remember any memories from your childhood.
• Global Amnesia- is when you lose all of your memory. It usually occurs after a very traumatic event.
• Posthypnotic amnesia- is when you cannot remember anything after hypnosis or cannot remember your past.
• Source Amnesia- is a memory disorder where a person can only recall information but they do not know where they learn it at.
• Memory Distrust syndrome- is when you do not trust your own memory.

How to deal with amnesia:

• Consult the doctor who treated you when you were initially injured. The circumstances that led to the onset of amnesia may provide clues about who you are and what you were doing. Find out where the incident occurred and who was with you.

• Be patient. While most people recover their memory almost completely, recovery may take many months. It's common to never recall the exact events leading to the accident, but wholesale permanent loss is unlikely.
• And always write down things you know you won’t remember.

Where to get help:

• Your doctor
• Go to an hospital
• Go to the police station if you don’t remember where you at