“A fascinating phenomenon”… At 80, suffering from a rare syndrome, he relives the same day every day

“Every day is a repeat of the day before…Wherever I go, the same people are on the side of the road, the same cars are behind me with the same drivers inside…Nothing is new”. The 80-year-old man who gives this testimony, in a case study published in the BMJ Journal, has a syndrome called “already-lived with recollective confabulation” which makes him feel like he is reliving the same day over and over again. . He says he brought his television to be repaired, because he always sees the same information on it.

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