Like, say someone experienced some type of abuse as a child. Is it possible for them to repress this event so strongly they don’t remember it in their adult life? Just feel the effects of unexplained mental illness? Or is this just a thing in the movies?
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Yes. Your brain is like a little machine. It gets overwhelmed and if it does that, it can sense you cannot deal with so much negative emotions at once, so it puts it into a drawer and hides it/does not let you open it in a normal state.
That is why meditation, therapy, breathing work is very useful. It essentially helps the brain learn to cope, developing pathways and the “key” to that little drawer so you can process it and learn to deal with it.
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