What is amnesia? Detailed answer

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What is amnesia?

From time to time there are reports in the newspapers about people who have "forgotten" who they are. Such people do not remember anyone and nothing from their past, including their name. We say that such people suffer from amnesia.

We all experience negative emotions from time to time. We feel resentful, angry, frustrated or scared for some reason. When we experience emotional stress, we need to do something about it. For example, the simplest thing is to scream, blush, or break out in a cold sweat. In fact, such things happen against our will. These are considered normal reactions because they can happen to anyone.

But a person can respond to emotional stress in other ways. Instead of turning to face the problems that have unsettled him, he tries to act as if nothing bothers him. He "runs" from problems, thus "protecting" himself from emotional stress.

One type of such reaction is amnesia. A person simply behaves as if everything that disturbs and upsets him so much did not happen to him, but to someone else! He "forgets" his worries. Forgetting this, he forgets many other things related to his anxieties - including his name! A person simply cannot remember anything about his past.

But in the present, he can navigate quite normally. He lives and works like any other person, and may not attract anyone's attention. Sometimes a person suddenly, on his own, wakes up after amnesia. In many cases, however, the patient must be helped to recover by a psychiatrist. It is curious that after the amnesia passes, people do not remember anything that happened to them during it.

Author: Likum A.

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How many states are there in the USA?

Formally - forty-six.

Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are all officially Commonwealths.

The status does not give them any special constitutional powers. They simply chose that word for themselves at the end of the War of Independence (1775-1783), making it clear that they were no longer colonies answerable to the English crown, but were becoming states governed "by the common consent of the people."

Virginia (named after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I (Virgin - virgin, virgin (English).)) was one of the first thirteen American states (hence the thirteen red stripes on the US state flag) and was the first to proclaim itself the Commonwealth in 1776.

Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were not long in coming, and Kentucky, originally a county within Virginia, declared itself a Commonwealth in 1792.

Interestingly, there are two more Commonwealths similar to the American ones outside the borders of the United States. In July 1952, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico adopted its own constitution, declaring itself the Commonwealth of the United States. The same thing was done in 1975 by the Northern Mariana Islands, a state in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Neither of these two states is part of the United States.

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