Chapter 1 - Will you put me back together again?

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Chapter 1: Dayna Leah Wilson P.O.V-

"Calm down, breath in deeply and relax" The boy struggles to do so, his mind still trapped within his horrific nightmare.

I pick up a glass of water on his bedside table and offered it up to him, which he gulps greedily on like a man trying to find the answers to his problems at the bottom. And as if questioning why it's not there he just stares down at the glass after finishing the contents of it, as if willing it to appear.

My heart breaks for Noah.

Noah Xavier.

Saved from a car accident somewhere on the main road heading back North Carolina in a vehicle, so crushed and mangled up like a piece of trash someone just crumbled and roughed up pretty harshly, screaming for his sister who had unfortunately died a few minutes prior to the ambulance arriving.

He doesn't remember what happened exactly, but I'm trying to help his retrograde amnesia.

This is the 3rd session of therapy this week and there is almost no noticeable improvement so far and that's completely fine and normal, but I know all that one-sided conversations, deep talks and help is brewing up somewhere inside him and it's only a (hopefully not that long of a) while until its out.
Or so I like to tell myself and the head psychologist who guides me through my first job as an official doctor who just passed out of medical school not too long ago..I'm not the main doctor (yet), but a helper on an internship so I'm shadowing my superior.

Retrograde amnesia isn't uncommon for patients in similar situation. It is often accompanied by concessions and splitting headaches. But he survived no minor accident but a rather painfully large-scale one.

Retrograde amnesia, for those who doesn't know what it is, is when memory before the person's accident is hard to recall. In fact, in a lot of cases they forget their entire past.
This is called having a clean-slate. It is but also, it isn't if you know what I mean. They will always want to know what happened to them to be forgetting everything.
It's the brain's way of coping with the accident - completely forgetting. But it will always remain in your unconscious, even when consciously it doesn't practically exist. This is often the reason why they have 'dreams' or 'visions' of their past lives.

Even in your present, the past will always haunt you. Your brain will never forget, unless of course it just does, but otherwise you will always be drawn to what had happened. It's like your brain is fighting with your own body as well as simultaneously healing it from your trauma. It's a very complicated process that just takes about a lifetime to completely heal from, no biggie (note the sarcasm). It is hard to understand, and harder to put into words in my case.

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