Why can’t I remember my trauma?

In trauma work it can feel impossible to recall all of a traumatic experience. It can feel like we are fighting with our mind to remember what took place, and all we come up with are flashes of images or feelings we had. When we are traumatized our nervous system can get overwhelmed and cause us to dissociate. While dissociation is protective and can help us survive a traumatic experience, it also impedes our brains ability to form memories, so we may not have them. Which is why therapies like somatic experiencing and others exist! Because with the right help, it can and will get better!!

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[karenKristal]

i dont really remember anything from a lot of my life :-( too much brain fog

[eliverman]

I agree Kati, with the right help we can recover. For me journaling about my trauma and reliving it with my therapist helped me recover.

[alice-okow]

ur eyes are so pretty! thanks for educating us all on this :)

[nelsonc]

Can you do a video on what they call internal family systems therapy. Just a little more in-depth on what it is and how it works.

[Malitubee]

Why is she so perfect. I wish she was my therapist

[janae]

Reminds me of the book: Body keeps the score or something like that.

[AdrianHiggins]

Why would a stressful event later in life cause traumatic memories from childhood to come back but the memories that come back are bits and pieces of a time line. Like some are clear and some are foggy.

[blairbelladonna]

I have pretty good memory because I can remember any memories in any sense I can remember taste, colour, smell, place, what were people doing around me even at my back, I can even remember and re-feel the emotions I was going through.. but I don't remember my childhood(age3-14) at all even if I try to remember it's only bad traumatized memories there are not any good memories at all... I just remember being stressed and always panic and super alert of my surroundings

[ratmanblackgrew]

i remeber everything good and awful, bad af from the year 5 till 27 and counting... sometimes i wish i forgot some unnecesary memory but i think i am one of the few who actualy can vivid remember a place, conversation, feeling, taste and envriorment, an awuful event or a happy one, a face and sometimes even vivid images like i see them in my back of my brain but it was decades ago ... idk why but i have verry lucid memory... for everything in my life....

[unapologeticallyamy]

Is it possible for me to recognize that I’m starting to dissociate? My husband became deathly ill and I really think I was recognize that I was starting to dissociate. I was able to ground myself. It didn’t feel like the anxiety attacks I have where I believe I’m dying. My husband looked at me and asked what was wrong. I very slowly said that I think he’s going to die. I wasn’t crying, I felt numb. He finally agreed to go to the hospital and he would have died had he not gone in. Please pray for him. He was admitted and thankfully released but can’t come home yet because the stress caused a flare up of my disease and I need to take care of myself and his mom is taking care of him. I miss him but I’m so grateful I still gave him. I do have past trauma due to my brothers death and being home alone while waiting for my parents to make it home. They had to take a helicopter further cruise and fly home from France. It took days.

[raywood]

Thank you for this enlightening minute, Kati! I noticed, either you have a backwards clock or you decided to try being right-handed.

[TheMJCorner]

But feeling trauma & remembering it isn't good, right? I think I got a bit confused. Any fellow viewers know why remembering those feelings are helpful? Thank you!

[theskyisonfire]

What about the opposite of that? like remember every single detail about traumatic events? I lived with my very much abusive father till i was about 10 years old and i had to memorize everything so i could let my mom know and she could tell the judges and lawyers. its been a little since all of that but i still remember far more than id like to. Sometimes it feels like im reliving everything again over and over and over and its made recovering and healing very difficult.

[WimshurstMachine]

So the brain hiding memories is for survival — and we don't need memories to heal — then why is trauma a condition? Why doesn't it resolve on its own?

[dawns]

My problem is I start the trauma and my body gets physically ill, my pain goes to a nine and I’m back to needing hospital care. My trauma and body are intertwined tightly. So far I’ve stopped trauma focused therapy, just to survive day to day. When you are at high pain levels you can’t deal with past trauma or daily living. It’s hard to find a therapist who has specialized CPTSD with chronic illness training.

[redacted]

Having trauma and not knowing why is.. strange. But I know not having them is probably better for me

[sunnysinghgillgameradiofm]

Just want butterflies again. Mind altering nonsense nowadays. Deep breaths.