with as basic science and as much analogies as possible, please explain why does childhood trauma carries on into adulthood and even at a later age, even when it’s not happening anymore later on.

Question

Why can’t the brain simply forget about it since it’s from a long time ago and still end up having some form of mental health issues later on in life because of it?

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Answer 1

If I take a jar full of water and place it in the freezer, with an object in the middle of it, it begins to freeze around the object. If I take the object out before the water is fully frozen, the ice will be all fucked up, there’ll be a half full hole leftover where the object was, the surface of the ice won’t be smooth, etc.

Why doesn’t the ice just forget and make itself smooth?