WHAT
THE
FUCK
:blob-on-fire:
From a facebook post by Kymberley Suchomel. She died a week later.
I just learned this from TrueAnon and I'm freaking out. I have goosebumps.
:blob-on-fire:
From a facebook post by Kymberley Suchomel. She died a week later.
I just learned this from TrueAnon and I'm freaking out. I have goosebumps.
The human phychie isn't really built to handle this type of thing, a bad thing happens and, if we survive, our brain says "this is what caused the bad thing" guns in this case, and inserts that into your memory because at the moment it was to busy to make vivid memories and now it just wants you to damn well know what you need to be afraid of, problem is it doesnt care much about what the specifics of what happened are.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying the brain creates ad hoc causes or threats, like imagining that the people running behind them are actually chasing them with guns, which are then hard to dislodge?
I thought trauma increased the vividness of the related memories.
Vivid was the wrong word to use there, vividness is not the same as accuracy. Victims tend to be able to recall very minute details from crises, for a long time we thought this was also an indication that human memory during trama was quite accurate, so much so that we called it "flashbulb memory" this has since been disproven.
I gotcha now.
Sorry for being vague here but: I have a vivid but incorrect memory of a traumatic event that happened to me. I know it's false by talking days later to others who were there, but if I had spoken to them minutes later instead, maybe I'd have convinced them I was right.