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Originally Posted by Jaybird57
There is a lot of recent research on BPD that indicates that we have a "smaller" hipppocampis capacity/ This leads to less spacial memory (something that I've suffered from for a loooong time) and a less room for memory retention.
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This would make sense.
Here are some other theories:
"Many researchers now view the repeated need to dissociate, as often observed in Borderline Personality Disorder, as a form of extended memory impairment. According to leading researchers Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Dr. Judith Herman, the severe trauma overwhelms the brain, and the memories for currently-experienced events become fragmented and not accessible to one another, so the memory is not stored as a retrievably complete whole. This is a reasonable explanation as to why a person with Borderline Personality Disorder can give a quite different story of their memory of an event than someone else who was there; so, perhaps, it may be true that the persona with borderline personality disorder is not truly responsible for their gaps in memory storage and later recall – that they really are not lying. "
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.borderlinecentral.com/art...dandmemory.php