The Man With The Seven Second Memory (Amnesia Documentary) | Real Stories

The best way to make him happier is to tell him jokes and then repeat the same joke that he laughs at the most

He’s so charming and intelligent. “What does love mean?” “Zero in tennis and everything in life.” I love that quote.

‘Waking up’ every minute hundreds of thousands of times would drive anyone insane. It’s unfathomable what this man goes through

This is so soul crushing. You can see in his eyes that he doesn’t know who any of these people are and why they’re talking to him. He’s stuck in an endless loop but he still retains his intelligence. He acts polite but I honestly think this is just pure torture for him. That clip of him from back in the 70s/80s where you see him visibly nauseous…terrible.

"What does love mean?" "Zero in tennis and everything in life." Dude is totally brain-damaged and still sharper than me.

The way he repeats "first time I've seen a human being" is terrifying. This is true loneliness: you don't even have yourself.

'its just the same as death' most dementia/alzheimers patients hit a point where they are no longer aware of their condition, and what differentiates him from them is that he is fully aware of his own limitations and is fully aware that he has absolutely no control of it.

Flashbacks of my own Dad. An insulin overdose stole his long and short term memory when he was 44. He was a great Dad, but he was left w/ no recall of raising my sister and me. He only remembered his own life up to the age of about 18. He had to rely on caregivers for the last 30 years of his life. As a diabetic he couldn't recall if he'd taken his insulin 5 min. ago...or eaten breakfast etc...but he was a proud former Marine and when he was unsure, he would make up an answer and deliver it w/all the conviction of someone who really knows. It was a dangerous power struggle to manage his diabetes. RIP Dad.

Imagine loving someone so much that the ONLY thing in the entire world that you can remember is them

Even with his brain heavily destroyed he is capable of making smarter remarks than most people.

21:31 crazy that after all those years he still doesn’t know that he has a diary but some part of him thinks to always cross out the previous entry and write the time in a random book with a bunch of other writings that are the same. This really makes me so sad to see just a man who had a brilliant mind taken away for no reason and now not being able to live or think but being aware of that. He is living a punishment worse than death in my opinion

The saddest part for me was when he correctly guessed Deborah’s job as PR on the 3rd try but then seconds later he doesn’t guess it. A nice happy moment contrasted with what usually happens, it really shows the futility of his illness. I feel so bad for him.

He could not have wished for a more caring and loving wife.

he understands his situation but remembers none of it.. it's so weird

Seeing his diary and how it changed in time was heartbreaking. Entirely heartbreaking.

music is known to be one of the last things to disappear in our memory, its amazing.

"So millions of people know you." "How embarassing" I laughed with him at first, until it hit me that only 3 minutes into this documentary I already know more about him than he does. That's terrifying

He waits for her arrival, meaning he knows she's gone, even though he doesn't remember. The power of feeling is amazing.

I simply cannot think of a more wonderful soul than Debra Wearing. An angel among us.

It's very interesting how he talks about his memory, it's not like he has this vague idea of having done stuff in the past and known people even if he doesn't remember specifics, he legitimately feels like he just now started existing and he hasn't ever seen another human being before.