[] How does the brain repress memories and not let people remember entire parts of their lives?
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Think of it like how the body works. If you get a splinter, your body will push it out. If you have something that can’t be pushed out, the body will calcify it, covering that object to protect itself from it and separate the object from the body. Your brain does that with trauma sometimes. It will push that memory out so you only really have an impression that it was ever there, or it will cover it and make it hazy/cloudy and feel like it’s not yours. Denial is pushing it out. Dissociation is covering it up and making it feel like it’s not yours.
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