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Amnesia: Loss of Self, Loss of Chronic Stress The best authority on the subject of total identity memory loss is the amnesiac patient whose memory has returned. When I tell people of my bout with amnesia caused by an epileptic seizure, they ask if it was frightening to have no memory. They assume that a panic response would be instinctive, but the nervous system’s built-up chronic stress disappears along with all past events. I was revived after going long minutes without breathing by firemen applying an oxygen mask to my face. I saw a woman crying but I didn’t know her, or my own name…it was all gone. So was the cache of stress reactors.