Retrograde amnesia affected me deeply since an evening in December of twenty-fourteen. I had multiple issues as time has passed with remembering what happened within the minutes before the incident, and even the night following it. “Retrograde Amnesia is the loss of memory for something that happy prior to an injury or traumatic event such as a concussion”, (Goldstein, 2015). The loss of memory due to my car accident is a direct result of retrograde amnesia.

Roughly a year after moving to Texas, I was exposed to an extremely traumatic incident. Directly after the accident occurred, I was in such shock and my adrenaline was through the roof, so I was able to still recall some of what happened, but my thoughts were already blurry. I was riding my bicycle down the greenbelt trails (like a sidewalk), and I had come up to a median where there was car traffic coming through. To this day the only thing I am fully certain of was that the driver did not have his turn signal on and was on his telephone. Unfortunately, I did get hit hard and skidded a bit. I hadn’t had a helmet on which was ill played on my part, but I did sprain my ankle and got cut up bad. As time has gone on, instead of my memory of the incident getting clearer and more pronounced, it appears to get foggier and so the days surrounding it. The trauma of the incident has resulted in severe memory loss from that week, but I am hoping it is possible for me to regain it at some point.

Retrograde amnesia was directly caused by the trauma of the event where I was hit by a car. Although this has affected me deeply, there is still possibility that I could remember the details of that time at some point. Trauma effects the brains in mysterious ways and it more than likely always will. There are many different types of amnesia and different causes, but I know this one fits my situation the best. My hope is that in the future we can figure out a way to trigger the details and memories people have lost.

References:
Goldstein, E. Bruce. “Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience”. Cengage Learning, 4th Ed, 2015.