Elena is a woman with a disease that can't remember faces, even forgets the faces of her children and can't recognize them - she doesn't even recognize her husband and every time she She has to re-introduce herself - the nature of her illness is so severe that she can't even recognize herself by looking at her picture. Her illness is called Proso Pagnosia.
Elena says that until the age of 29, she kept convincing herself that she was not suffering from any disease. Her disease was diagnosed only a year ago. Couldn't remember their faces - whenever he tried to talk to his father about it, he never paid attention to what he said, but he always said that you tried to remember carefully. Unfortunately, there was no Google at the time to find any trace of his disease.
Elena said she was worried about her illness and believed she was the only person in the world with the problem - but now she knew she was not alone. There are other people who suffer from the disease - recalling an incident in which Elena said that when she went on a picnic at the age of 16, she met her childhood classmates who Every effort was made to get Elena to recognize them, but Elena could not remember the girls at all. Even Elena's mother recognized the girls who were studying with Elena, but Elena remembered their faces.
Elena said that in order to remember her face, she had to identify a mole on her face by which she could recognize her face. Elena said that as long as the person in front of her stays in my sight As long as I can see his face, his identity remains inside me, but as soon as his face disappears from my sight, his face disappears from my memory to identify this servant.
But now Elena is starting to remember different things about people in order to make them remember them. They are starting to remember people with their voices instead of their faces - Elena also has a five-year-old son who Sending her to school every morning, she remembers him with the help of her clothes. When she goes to pick up her son from school, she recognizes her son by her bag.
After giving birth to a son, she feared that she would take another child instead of her own - in this regard, Elena sometimes considers herself lucky to have someone for her. Negative memories don't exist - they get rid of people's bad memories as quickly as people's faces.
Elena is from Russia and says of her disease that it is a hereditary disease that affects only 2% of people - it is an incurable disease and different people have different degrees and severity of the disease. It does, but it requires a variety of techniques to improve memory, rather than medication.