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Suffering With Short Term Memory Loss, Excessive Nervousness, Difficulty In Doing Anything Properly. What Could This Be?

hello I am from bhagalpur, my sister is suffering from a strange brain problem, only for few minutes she losses her memory and forget every thing, and get nervous and behaves like a stranger, she forget everything except her name, work. she donot able to do anything. so please veirfy this problem what is these disease ?
Sat, 20 Oct 2012
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hi there are multiple differential diagnoses of this case..may be a depersonalization phenomena, may be dissociative state, may be certain form of seizure..all said and done, please consult a neurologist and get an EEG done..if needed, then consult a psychiatrist..don't worry..its a remediable disorder if cared earlier..wish her good health
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Suffering With Short Term Memory Loss, Excessive Nervousness, Difficulty In Doing Anything Properly. What Could This Be?

hi there are multiple differential diagnoses of this case..may be a depersonalization phenomena, may be dissociative state, may be certain form of seizure..all said and done, please consult a neurologist and get an EEG done..if needed, then consult a psychiatrist..don t worry..its a remediable disorder if cared earlier..wish her good health