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Mikado ~King of the Light
I think its more of a defense mechanism. Like when a child burns his/her hand on a stove, the pain is imprinted and the child wont do the mistake twice cause he/she is reminded over the trauma it caused.
Think its somewhat the same. The brain connects the place of the rape victim to pain and suffering and is telling the body to get away cause its a painful place.
That's about the most sense I have heard about this!
But if this is true, why does a rape victim re-live this memory at random times?
Like, in the person's sleep or even when they would be in a relaxing environment with absolutely no negative stimulations,
what would cause that?
Many people who have PTSD lock up certain memories, they can be gone for years or forever, depending on the person.
I was told when the person is ready to deal with the memory, it comes back.
But why does it constantly replay, like a broken record? Can't the brain erase that memory?
That everyone one is different in the end also plays in. I was raped when I was young, but I didn't suffer much from it after words. I had the nightmares, I didn't want to talk about it. But in the end, I figured it could have been worse. I didn't get pregnant, I didn't get an STD, and best of all, I was not killed. It just doesn't bother me that much. Only took me a year to be able to come to terms with it. s**t happens, you move on. That's not to say it works on everyone. I did go to counselling a few years later in 10-12th grade and told him about it since I was having issues with settling in with whom I was and such things. But I didn't have any issues arising from the rape, it was only your typical hormonal teen stuff.
I am not sure if I will get a huge relapse when I get older, or I might just live my life as I plan to and it never happens. I haven't blocked out the rape, just details but they still get foggy over time, I don't think its healthy to try and block something like that out. I have just come to terms with the situation and I can talk about it without it bothering me too much.
The brain is pretty much your hard drive like to a computer: Your personality is the operating system and the files are the memories you gain. No matter how many things you throw in the trash can trying to forget, they will always remain buried somewhere in the hard drive and can be retrieved. Some operating systems just have an easier time accessing these files than others.
To fully erase a memory you'd need help. As for a hard drive, you can put it in salt water for a week, you can sandpaper the disks, or you destroy it to smitheries.
With a brain, you'd have to do it medically or trauma where you are hit just at the right spot to cause permanent amnesia or if its medically induced. Or generally illness that cause permanent memory loss like alzhimers.
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