frustration, but also the irony of he is, he feels he has become sort of like the patient that he used to study, HM, the patient who had his hippocampus removed to treat epilepsy, and that's how they learned, oh, you need your hippocampus to make new memories. So he had studied this patient over and over again to the point where it was sort of annoying. And then he was like, wow, I'm like HM. And that's what he felt like when he got the news of how bad his memory was. But he's also, you know, he says, I wish there had been some sort of more kinder, more gentler way to impart this lesson of having gratitude for what you do have. And so he is just very grateful for his friends and his family and his support and everything that he learned before that he can still use. And strangely enough, the, you know, obsession of list writing and journaling that was so bothersome to him before are now the strategies that he needs to survive. Like if if he had not honed those skills, he would be in (26/37)
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