Imagine you are taking a nap and wake up with no memory what happened in the last 15 years of your life. So happened to Nesh Pillay, 32, from Toronto, Canada. Today she needs a reminder of the last few years of her life as she doesn’t remember anything that has happened recently including her 5 year old daughter.
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In October 2022, the woman took a nap while watching a movie at her home. When he woke up, the memories of the last 15 years of his life had faded. She remembers neither her 5yearold daughter nor her 30yearold boyfriend, whose name is Johannes Jakope.
A rare mental illness causes a woman to lose 15year memory
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When he woke up from his nap, Nesh thought he was still 17 years old. Worst of all, she almost immediately forgot everything they shared about her life. The woman thinks she hit her head before the nap, but that memory is also unreliable.
According to the neurologist consulted, the woman suffered a concussion and possibly multiple seizures that resulted in severe brain damage.
“I forgot I had a daughter, but I knew I was constantly concerned about the wellbeing of a young child. I would say, ‘Do I have a child? I don’t know how to take care of a child,'” the woman said in an interview with the English newspaper Mirror.
life of lost memories
The woman’s memory continues to show moments of profound errors. One day she woke up not knowing that she had a boyfriend and mistook him for an app driver. Therefore, the man had to win her back several times over the months.
“So many people have compared our story to ‘Like it was the first time’ or ‘Forever’ and I see the similarities after all, I fell in love with him a second time and will probably love him for the rest of my life,” said Nesh.
Recently, the woman managed to regain shortterm memory. However, memories that have been lost in the past must never come back to the woman’s mind.