How do childhood memories cause trauma if you can’t remember them?

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How do childhood memories cause trauma if you can’t remember them?

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Answer 1

If you physically get hurt badly as a child, you might not remember it but you will have a scar from it as an adult.

The mind is the same way in that the trauma you experienced as a child has “rewired” it in a certain way due to the stress hormones affecting it’s development.