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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Yes. People remember traumatic events differently than they remember normal events. Instead of remembering an event in a narrative way where you consciously know what happened, trauma shuts off this narrative memory and is instead remembered by a person doing certain behaviors or reacting to certain stimuli. This is why repressed memories are a thing.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an excellent book on the topic.

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