Creepy doctor is obsessed with his nurse so he kidnaps her and sticks giant needles into her brain to give her amnesia and make her believe they're a happily married loving couple.

He even goes so far as to rent a storage facility where he keeps a whole drug lab to make special pills for her that keeps her memory suppressed. He lies and tells her it's meds for her non existent heart condition.

Of course a car accident and trip to the hospital causes everything to unravel and our heroine begins to learn the truth.

It's a typical Lifetime drama of obsession, but this psycho went to such crazy lengths to obtain his object of affection. I wondered why he went through all that trouble just to get this woman because she wasn't all that special.

This film is over 15 years old so the writing is ok and characters don't do stupid things like in today's films simply to keep the plot going.

I think the older Lifetime films are much better quality than more recent ones. I'll be generous and give this a 6. Worth a watch.

Mind and memory. These are the two themes of "Not My Life," a good drama that focuses on a case of amnesia.

Alison Morgan lives in a perpetual state of darkness as she seeks to recover her lost memory through the aid of her doctor husband, Steven Morgan. But it turns out that Steve is conducting a bizarre experiment on Alison's mind and memory. The film focuses on the awakening of Alison to the realities of her situation living with a Dr. Frankenstein.

It turns out that Alison Morgan is actually Anna Taylor, wife of Greg and mother of little Becky. Obsessed with Anna, Steve Morgan staged her death in an auto crash, then sought to reprogram her through a diabolical plan of mind control. As a guinea pig, Anna was subjected to experimental procedures with the needle into her brain, as well as medications that would induce the amnesia.

It was unfortunate that two of the most interesting characters in the film met untimely ends at the hands of the maniac Steve Morgan. One was Dr. Jennifer Prasad, who examined Alison and recognized the medical malpractice that was occurring. But before she could report him to the authorities, Steve killed her. Similarly, the wily private investigator Jack Kreuger, who became the first to recognize that Alison Morgan was in fact Anna Taylor, was dispatched by the evil Dr. Morgan.

"Not My Life" was a good study about a stolen life. The topic of memory erasure was an unpleasant one. It was shocking that Steve Morgan would keep a woman in a virtual catatonic state in order feed his megalomaniacal quest to control another human being.

***SPOILERS*** Mind numbing movie that's a lot like that 1991 brain twister "Shattered" about not exactly knowing who you are with Tom Berenger and Greta Scacchi. In this case Alison Morgan, Mededith Monroe, has been suffering from memory loss since a very tragic incident happened to her in the not so distance past.

With her attention span or memory never going back to about a year Alison is given these heart condition drugs by her concerned and doctor husband Steve, Ari Cohen. Steve knows the secret to his wife's problems but keeps it from her in order that Alison doesn't suffer another nervous breakdown that after she suffered her first one that almost had her institutionalized over a year ago.

It when Alison has a miner fender-bender that her mind or memory starts to recover and glimpse of her past start to come into focus. Going to see a cardiologist Dr.Jennifer Prasad,to check out her heart condition and the medication she's taking for it Alison discovers that there's nothing at all wrong with her ticker but that there's, in the drugs her husband is giving her, something very wrong with her brain! In that it's being kept from thinking in what happened to her to put Alison in the condition that she now finds herself in now!

***SPOILERS*** Hard to take Lifetime mystery movie that manipulates the audiences' brains like it does it's major character Alison Morgan's true identity. An identity that's being totally obliterated by her "loving" and "cearing" husband Steve who in fact need far more help in his own severe mental problems than she does! It's when Alison realizes that she's in fact not who she is, Alison Morgan,that she hired private detective Michael Woods, Jack Kruegher,to check out both her and Steve's past which ends up leading to his murder. To even things out gender wise the nosy Dr.Prasad also ends up getting it by uncovering the fact that Alison is being chemically brainwashed to keep her from remembering her dark past that her husband Steve is doing everything possible, even contemplating a lobotomy, to keep her from remembering!

Watching this movie you feel as if your being brainwashed into thinking that it's outrageous and totally unbelievable plot makes any sense in the real or even world, the movies, of make believe. But as hard as you try to make some sense out of it the more you begin to realize just how senseless it is.