Good day everyone, 
During my secondary school days at federal government college Keffi, there was this teacher who teaches physics, this man will drive to car and will literally forget his car after he is done teaching, walk home and will later remember to come back for his car, it was said that he usually forgets his topic of discussion while teaching, or will try to remember what he was talking about occasionally during his class.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH FORGETFULNESS
My father was transferred to the city of Abuja, leaving me with the responsibility of taking care of my Mother and younger sibling. One faithful weekend, my Mother dedicated to visit my Dad, leaving me with the full responsibly of caring for my sibling and also, her small farm of chicks. it was an unforgettable memory for me because i failed terribly to execute this little tax. the duty i was taxed with was the responsibly of feeding my sibling, her chicks, providing them fresh water (changing their drinking water at least three times daily), and opening their pen, so as to provide them with good ventilated air. it was on a Saturday morning, i decided to go out on a small picnic with my friends very early that morning, and totally forgot to do any of the task assigned to me by my lovely mother. i didn't feed my sibling or cater for the chicks. Before i could remember about my responsibility, it was already evening. i rushed home to my angry sibling and the carcass of almost all the chicks in the pen. i almost felt like the ground should just open and swallow me before my mother's return.
Forgetfulness has both positive and negative effects.
For someone to be forgetful may be as a result of an underlying mental illness, depression or dementia
Forgetfulness can cause us so many things, among which is our self-respect, and dignity like the physics teacher in my high school and could develop to one having a low self-esteem.
Forgetfulness can also have serious impact in our day to day live, one may forget an important appointment or information which could result to stress and could interfere with the person’s efficiency at his job and family life.
It is important to note that people have thought themselves to forget totally about traumatic events in their lives in order to regulate what they feel about their past and how it affects them. I have watched in movies how a victim of some traumatic event train their selves to forget totally about some life expresses that they tend to remember almost nothing about such events occurring.
Among many studies is a study by Paul Frankland and his colleagues who did their research in the aspect of neuroscience and psychological aspect:
- The Biology of forgetting;
- In their research they explored the creation of new neurons in the hippocampus contributing to forgetfulness, they suggested according to their research that forgetfulness is an active process and not only a passive failure of our memory, for further information on this research you can visit the link
- Interference based forgetting: this talks about how new memories over laps old memories which lead to us forgetting the old memories. Visit link for further information about the above.
Psychological aspect of forgetting: this research on prospective memories dives into how we remember to perform some actions in a future time, in this study, it shows the contributing factors to the failure of prospective memory. link
Lastly the clinical aspect of forgetting: This was associated with Dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the effects of medications like opioids, tricyclin antidepressants, anxiety, sleep deprivation, aging etc. you can find more information here
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