Stephanie Soo

Those are why people have these repressed memories.

And they say, boom, that's all it takes for this new memory to form for you to believe that you were abused as a child.

They say the more people around you that have been victimized, the more likely you are able to even picture your own victimization.

Which could be, or it could just be that a lot of people have been victimized.

What do we know, right?

I will say the false memory syndrome foundation aren't particularly the most convincing people out there.

However, one thing that has stuck with a lot of people, and I'm just saying netizens out there, on the debate of whether or not repressed memories are real, is that a lot of research so far has shown that emotional and traumatic events are typically remembered better and not worse than mundane experiences.

So studies on trauma survivors consistently show that traumatic memories, they tend to be very intrusive, persistent.

They're difficult to forget rather than inaccessible.

So they state that in neuroscience, when your body has a spike in adrenaline and norepinephrine, it actually strengthens memory consolidation through the amygdala, which makes emotional memories more durable over time.

It's like adding extra strength to it so it never disappears.

This is human adaptation because remembering threats helps us avoid them, but that's just what research shows.

That doesn't mean that's the only way that our brains work.

In fact, trauma makes brains work in very strange and unreasonable ways.

Other scholars argue differently, such as Jennifer.

She's a doctor, and we'll get into Jennifer in a second.

She states that children who are abused by their caregivers are in an impossible situation.

So a lot of people who have her past memories, it's from their childhood.

And she states a lot of it is because when you are being abused by your caregiver as a child, there's no reason for your brain to keep it in your mind as a threat.

Because there's nothing you can do about it.