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Forgetting can mean access problems, availability problems, or can have other reasons such as amnesia caused by an accident. An inability to forget can cause distress, as with post-traumatic stress disorder and hyperthymesia (in which people have an extremely detailed autobiographical memory).
Motivated forgetting is a theorized psychological behavior in which people may forget unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously. [1] It is an example of a defence mechanism, since these are unconscious or conscious coping techniques used to reduce anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful impulses thus it can be a defence mechanism in some ways. [2]
Examining the effects of emotional trauma and childhood amnesia shows that stressful experiences do in fact disrupt memory and can damage central parts of the memory system such as the hippocampus and amygdala. [9] Adults who were abused or traumatized in childhood form their earliest memories about 2–3 years after the general population.
Absent-mindedness is a mental state wherein a person is forgetfully inattentive. [1] It is the opposite mental state of mindfulness.. Absent-mindedness is often caused by things such as boredom, sleepiness, rumination, distraction, or preoccupation with one's own internal monologue.
In the same way people perceive Mondays as an opportunity to make a new week better than the last, they do so with New Year’s Day but on a macro level, Gina Moffa, therapist and author of Moving ...
In these cases, when I had to move out, all I needed to do was call my landlord and give them 30 days' notice. If I had an active lease, I likely would've needed to pay a few months' rent to be free.
When people come into additional money, whether it’s a raise at work or an inheritance, they feel more freedom. They want to go out and treat themselves to something they’ve wanted but couldn ...
Memory erasure has been shown to be possible in some experimental conditions; some of the techniques currently being investigated are: drug-induced amnesia, selective memory suppression, destruction of neurons, interruption of memory, reconsolidation, [1] and the disruption of specific molecular mechanisms.