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