Identity Amnesia in Love: Forgetting Who You Are

  Some relationships overshadow and drown you. They drag you into a form of obsessive passion where you forget where you come from and where you’re going. All that matters to you is revolving your life around your partner, reducing your whole universe to just the two of you, at the exclusion of everyone and everything else. When this happens, you might find yourself suffering from identity amnesia. It’s not that you’re suffering a total or even partial loss of memory. It’s not a clinical disorder that appears in diagnostic manuals. However, the experience is quite similar to brainwashing as…