How Trauma Affects Memory

[Kizzie]

Saw this info about trauma and how it affects four different types of memory.  Explains a lot!

[Papa Coco]

I just read this article. It's good. It does help explain things a lot!

[Kizzie]

Glad it helped.  It explained a lot for me too and it helped me understand why I have what I call "swiss cheese" memory. 

[Papa Coco]

Swiss Cheese memory!  HA HA! I love it. I'm steeling it.

[Kizzie]

Please do 

[Chart]

I just wanted to comment that I've been going back rereading old stuff I've written on the Forum. Too much of it I have absolutely no memory whatsoever having written that... It's quite unsettling.

I printed the chart about different types of memory and will look at it repeatedly for the next six months. This is the ONLY way that I manage to retain information. It took me two years of constant repetition to remember: cognitive vs emotional empathy... and only just today was I able to recall Judith Herman's name (and I only did it by using the mnemonic method of linking it to a SHerman tank... of which there is absolutely no connection apart from the Herman...)

Having a horrible memory has been the single biggest handicap to my professional and financial situation my entire life.

I want to "heal" much of my trauma for the affect regulation that could bring... but I ALSO desperately want my hippocampus to get more online and assist me in pretty much any/all projects I attempt as I go through this life. Alone I'm better, but in a group don't ask me 9x7... couldn't tell ya to save my life...

[Blueberry]

I'm with you on the horrible memory Chart, and it being a handicap in professional and financial life

[Chart]

I'm with you on the horrible memory Chart, and it being a handicap in professional and financial life