Yes. When someone experiences a traumatic situation, his brains are capable of trying to 'protect' him against that experience because he and his body can't handle what happened. It's also possible that someone has memory loss after that person get hit on his head in an accident. Like a car crash..
A traumatic event can't make you lose your memory, but it might make you repress it.
You may repress it for a day, week, months, or forever. Your memory may come back to you at anytime. It could be when you are focusing on remembering it or not even thinking about it at all.
The image of a yellow dress has no universal significance. Other factors in the dream might be more readily interpreted. It is also possible that a yellow dress is significant to you personally, because of a memory of wearing a yellow dress at a significant event such as a wedding, funeral, or traumatic experience.
Because it is a not a tape recorder. ;p;
Constructive memory. The creation of personal, episodic memory from a previous experience is a remarkably complex process. The act of remembering an episodic event is as much an act of creation as an act of reproduction.
The influence or change that our experience retains on our physic and mind is known as memory trace. A memory trace is a memory formed during the first experiencing of an event. An Example is when a person sees a stop sign for the first time this creates a memory trace for a stop sign. It is the idea that misleading post event information impairs or replaces memories that were formed during the original experiencing of an event.
The flashback technique is: A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. A flashback is also: In Psychiatry it is a recurring, intensely vivid mental image of a past traumatic experience: soldiers who had flashbacks of the war. an unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use. a vivid memory that arises spontaneously or is provoked by an experience.
The flashback technique is: A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. A flashback is also: In Psychiatry it is a recurring, intensely vivid mental image of a past traumatic experience: soldiers who had flashbacks of the war. an unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use. a vivid memory that arises spontaneously or is provoked by an experience.
Yes. A traumatic event such as an assault can cause mental disabilities other than PTSD.
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Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn't involve physical harm. It's not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatized. So in lighter words...a person can be emotionally damaged in an event that caused you to be freaked out by or traumatized by..you can be emotionally damaged by a bad relationship with lovers. Friends. Family..
Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn't involve physical harm. It's not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatized. So in lighter words...a person can be emotionally damaged in an event that caused you to be freaked out by or traumatized by..you can be emotionally damaged by a bad relationship with lovers. Friends. Family..
Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn't involve physical harm. It's not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatized. So in lighter words...a person can be emotionally damaged in an event that caused you to be freaked out by or traumatized by..you can be emotionally damaged by a bad relationship with lovers. Friends. Family..
PTSD is a psychological disorder that involves a maladaptive reaction to a traumatic event. People with this disorder usually have a continuous problem of adjustment, even after several years after the traumatic event has passed. Symptoms are avoiding anything that reminds them of the event, traumatic flashbacks, depression or severe anxiety, difficulties relaxing , and difficulties feeling strong emotions. Common suffers of PTSD are people that have AIDS, cancer, or were once in combat.