Why am I so bad at remembering things?

Forgetfulness can arise from stress, depression, lack of sleep or thyroid problems. Other causes include side effects from certain medicines, an unhealthy diet or not having enough fluids in your body (dehydration). Taking care of these underlying causes may help resolve your memory problems.

What is memory suppression?

Memory suppression corresponds to the voluntary alteration of memory retrieval by conscious cognitive control. Whether suppression-induced forgetting can be triggered unconsciously remains unknown. Indeed, long-term declarative memory has long been thought to be tightly linked to consciousness (Tulving, 1987).

Why do I get random memory flashbacks?

After experiencing a distressing event, people can develop memory disturbances where they re-experience the event in the form of flashbacks – distressing vivid images that involuntarily enter consciousness, as happens in post-traumatic stress disorder.

Does your body remember emotional trauma?

Our bodies remember trauma and abuse — quite literally. They respond to new situations with strategies learned during moments that were terrifying or life-threatening. Our bodies remember, but memory is malleable. The therapeutic practice of somatics takes these facts — and their relation to each other — seriously.

What does it mean when you start remembering old memories?

Neuroscientists have discovered that when someone recalls an old memory, a representation of the entire event is instantaneously reactivated in the brain that often includes the people, location, smells, music, and other trivia. Recalling old memories can have a cinematic quality.

Why are my childhood memories so vivid?

As we make episodic memories, we’re processing them in two different ways: verbatim and gist. These ultra-vivid memories tend to date back to adolescence, at the earliest, and people with HSAM aren’t immune to childhood amnesia, i.e., the natural erasure of memories before age 3.