11 Facts About Traumatic memories

Management of traumatic memories is important when treating mental health disorders such as post traumatic stress disorder.

Traumatic memories are naturally stressful in nature and emotionally overwhelm people's existing coping mechanisms.

Traumatic memories are formed after an experience that causes high levels of emotional arousal and the activation of stress hormones.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a therapy for treating traumatic memories that involves elements of exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Experiments have shown that targeted negative Traumatic memories are recalled less vividly and with less emotion after treatments with EMDR.

Normally these Traumatic memories would be reconsolidated, becoming stronger and more permanent again.

Once the Traumatic memories are reconsolidated they are less emotional and vivid.

Neuroscience has shown that Traumatic memories are vulnerable to disruption for several hours after they form.

Also there is some evidence that Traumatic memories can become vulnerable to disruption even at longer periods of time in a process known as reconsolidation.

Traumatic memories experiences do not necessarily produce a long term traumatic memory, some individuals learn to cope and integrate their experience and it stops affecting their lives quite quickly.

Painful, frightening or even traumatic memories can serve to teach a person to avoid certain situations or experiences.