[] How does the brain repress memories and not let people remember entire parts of their lives?

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[] How does the brain repress memories and not let people remember entire parts of their lives?

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Answer 1

Not a full explanation here but it’s important to know that human memory isn’t like a computer where it’s “stored” in one spot to be retrieved later, it’s more of a chain reaction between different parts of your brain – both for forming the memory and for drawing it up.

So when a memory is “repressed” it’s probably because a person has avoided thinking about it and withdrawn from that context so the signals their brain receives in a regular day don’t trigger that chain reaction to recreate that memory.