A lot of memories are traumatizing or distracting
Trauma post traumatic stress
Triggering of terrible memories can make it hard to not think about or do anything else
Brains optimize by
compartmentalizing or suppressing bad memories
Not erased but unaccessible

Brains sometimes overwrite memories
Rewires things so that the memory is gone from the brain

Other times brains make it hard for a person to retrieve the memory unless they are in a specific interaction.

Are brains put things away when we are not in situations when things are relevant

College self vs family self

How do you get to that bowling alley again?
When you’re in your hometown you can get there almost automatically

Memory is situational it is adaptive and advantageous

Multiple personality disorder

Disassociative personality disorder

Not psychologically connected through memory

This is a result of brain compartmentalizes bad traumatic memories

Confuses more generally adaptive memory of walling off bad stuff