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“When my mother wanted to hug me in the hospital to comfort me, I recoiled, because it was like ‘hello madam, who are you?’” Jaël at 43 years old and overnight, she forgot all the memories of her life. For Brut, the mother recounts her struggle and the difficulties she is going through.
It was during an operation to treat a cerebral aneurysm that the doctors discovered that Jaël was suffering from memory disorders, a pathology impacting her previous memories. When she woke up, she had forgotten everything and was unable to remember anything from her past. A trauma she is trying to get through, supported by her family and loved ones who have also been erased from her memory.
After an operation to treat a cerebral aneurysm, Jaël woke up without any memory of her first name, her mother, or even her partner and her son… Today, the mother of the family is trying to rebuild herself despite the difficulty to move forward without being able to find the lost memories of his past. “It’s a disease that is really very disabling since on a daily basis, I had to relearn everything that makes up the life of a human being, since I had no landmarks, whether historical, memorial, sensory and neither at the level of feelings, nor at the level of our society, I had to relearn everything, so it’s a disease that is quite devastating.”
“I felt like I had nothing in my brain, nothing in my head, but really literally. That is to say, when I tried to think, I really had black, I had no more images.“One of the biggest challenges she’s had to face is being with her family, who she can’t remember. “It’s a bit like being adopted. You discover like that a whole family who only wants to take you in their arms, you are the child prodigy who is coming back, but you, you don’t know them, and you don’t like them. is not true, it is learned and we like the people we know, the people who have helped us, the friends with whom we have shared things.”