The Psychology of People Who Blocked Out Their Past

Описание: If you can recite the facts of your childhood but cannot feel the emotional texture of them, you are not "bad with memory." You are not cold, and you are not broken. You are operating under a survival strategy so sophisticated, it saved your life by freezing it.
Society often mistakes silence for peace and dissociation for strength. They praise your "stoicism" or your ability to remain "unbothered," unaware that this calmness is actually a biological barricade. This numbness is not a personality trait; it is the Dorsal Vagal Shutdown—an ancient nervous system response designed to anaesthetize you when fighting or fleeing is impossible. You did not choose to forget; your brain chose to hide the evidence to keep you functional.
In this video, we explore the deep psychology of repression and the "Deep Freeze":
• The Biological Bunker: Understanding why your Hippocampus went offline and "stopped the tape" during childhood.
• The Metabolic Cost: Why holding back the past creates chronic, physical exhaustion in the present.
• The "Driveway Moment": Why you feel paralyzed in transition spaces and use your phone as digital anesthesia.
• The Illusion of Safety: How the armor that kept you alive is now the very thing preventing you from connecting with others.
• The Thaw: The terrifying, necessary process of realizing the war is over.
This is for the person who sits in their car for twenty minutes before going inside because the transition feels too heavy. It is for the friend who listens to everyone else’s problems but feels like a ghost in their own life. If you have ever felt like you are watching your life through a pane of thick glass, or describing a movie you haven't actually seen, this analysis is for you.
You are not an empty vessel. You are a vessel sealed for deep-ocean pressure, floating in shallow water. You are not broken; you are simply waiting to be safe enough to melt.
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