Questioning one's existence can come in, what I feel to be, a variety of forms. Take for example this patient. He claims that he can "remember" the sixties, what he is unsure of is whether or not he was really there. Remembering something of your past is a very individual recollection because you do not have anything to compare it to and you can never actually know if you were actually there.
Sure you might say that you could compare it to other person's experiences of the sixties but you still don't know if you were actually there because all you are comparing is their understanding of what their experience actually was. How is it that someone can understand something that is external to themselves?
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