Sunday, March 1, 2009

How Fragile the Human Mind

You might say it was a movie, so odd and unreal are the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and rediscovery of Hannah Upp, a NYC school teacher who disappeared and was fished out of the water off Staten Island three weeks later.

The cause? Dissociative fugue, a form of amnesia.

Wait, that is a movie: The Bourne Identity, which takes it's name from a 19th-century preacher who had the first recorded case of the fugue, which often includes travelling.

At least real life had a happy ending (actually, the movie might have too; I've never seen it).

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