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The man who saw his wife as a hat6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And as he found this out, he grew fretful and restless again, and wandered the corridors, uneasy and bored and with a sense of indignity games and puzzles were for children, a diversion. He would become keenly and briefly involved in games, but soon they ceased to offer any challenge: he solved all the puzzles, and could solve them easily and he was far better and sharper than anyone else at games. ![]() This worked better better than the diary. ![]() Later, having noted his aptitude for, and pleasure in, quick games and puzzles, and their power to 'hold' him, at least while they lasted, and to allow, for a while, a sense of companionship and competition - he had not complained of loneliness, but he looked so alone he never expressed sadness, but he looked so sad - I suggested he be brought into our recreation programmes at the Home. Oliver Sacks recounts his condition and history, then tells us about their efforts to solve Jimmy’s restlessness and sadness. Everything after that, including the recent past, was a blank, due to brain damage from alcohol abuse. Jimmy was a patient whose memories stopped in 1945. A short, interesting excerpt from “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” by neurologist Oliver Sacks ![]()
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