{"id":26,"date":"2019-12-31T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/204.48.22.247\/?p=26"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:06:06","slug":"physical-memory-loss-maria-delila-msc-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultedchild.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Physical Memory Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria Peregolise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-1024x613.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-300x180.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-768x460.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-210x126.jpg 210w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026suppressing our recollections can create a \u201cvirtual lesion\u201d in the brain that casts an \u201camnesiac shadow\u201d over the formation of new memories.\u201d (Davis, 2016) <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_1');\">[1]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1\"> Nicola Davis, Suppressing traumatic memories can cause amnesia, research suggests, New study could explain why people suffering from PTSD and other psychological disorders can have difficulty forming everyday memories, 2016 https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/mar\/15\/suppressing-traumatic-memories-can-cause-amnesia-research-suggests <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s interesting that they term this \u2018virtual wound\u2019 as a \u2018shadow,\u2019 since I called mine a \u2018Grey Box.\u2019 My \u2018Grey Box of Practiced Memory-Loss\u2019 could get out of control \u2014 it still can. When I\u2019d realized I could purposely, actively call it up to watch it cover and drag away a thought, it was interesting. It was entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Father would tell me God\u2019s secrets and I wasn\u2019t supposed to share them with anyone, so it became advantageous that the Grey Box covered and dragged away a story or incident. At the point of the next continuation of the same conversation, most of the event would float to the surface and bloom open for me to recall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Suppression of memories can assist significantly in the goal of Lifton\u2019s \u201cMilieu Control,\u201d which is \u201cthe control of human communication &#8230; <em>ultimately, within the individual<\/em>&#8230;\u201d (Lifton, 1961, 1989) <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_2');\">[2]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2\"> Robert J. Lifton, Eight Psychological Themes of a Thought Reform Program, 1961, 1989 <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, eventually all I needed do was think of the box, and it randomly loomed up to drag away my thoughts, even when I didn\u2019t want it to \u2014 even as I begged it to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research of such phenomena reports, \u201cHippocampal damage profoundly disrupts the ability to store new memories&#8230; Intentionally suppressing memory retrieval (retrieval stopping) reduces hippocampal activity&#8230; (and) Cognitively triggered amnesia constitutes an unrecognized <em>forgetting process<\/em> &#8230;\u201d (Hulbert, Henson and Anderson) <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_3');\">[3]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3\"> Justin C. Hulbert, Richard N. Henson, and Michael C. Anderson, Inducing Amnesia Through Systemic Suppression <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_3\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018forgetting process\u2019 of \u2018Cognitively Triggered Amnesia\u2019 was something I had practiced quite a bit. The research makes sense to me that such practice leads to the detriment of memory development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a teen, I already understood that my Grey Box developed from intentionally suppressing memories. Practice makes perfect. It follows that what you practice the most, is what you\u2019ll become most proficient in doing. \u201c(Memory) suppression, however, required practice. &#8230; amnesia increased the more participants practiced suppressing their memories.\u201d (Hulbert, Henson, Anderson, 2016) <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_4');\">[4]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_4\"> Justin C. Hulbert, Richard N. Henson, and Michael C. Anderson, Inducing Amnesia Through Systemic Suppression, 2016, <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_4\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_4\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script> <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_5');\">[5]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5\"> https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms11003 <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it wasn\u2019t until I researched the phenomenon as an adult, that I\u2019d found it had terminology, a biological explanation which entailed specific causes and a definition. This was when I learned that its frustrating tendency to repress a memory I wanted to hold onto could be attributed to both practice and stress-induced underdevelopment of the hippocampus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My little vinyl-upholstered chair sat next to the grown-up\u2019s arm chair. I\u2019d occasionally have memories of sitting in my child-sized spring rocker with my arm in a gauze sling on the arm rest. That rocker would squeak when I rocked in it, and normally I\u2019d be thrilled to swing it to its very limits&#8211;usually until sending it off its alignment and had to pull it back into place. But, in this particular memory, I was terrified to move it at all, fearful of affecting my hurt arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This chair had a button-nose smiley face that hurt when I sat back against it, but I loved it anyway. I could envision Mom placing me into the chair, very careful to settle my bandaged arm on its wide arm rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I noted that my arm was in a sling in this memory, I was always confused about something more bothersome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How is it that I couldn\u2019t remember why my arm was in a sling?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was appreciative of Mom\u2019s overtly gentle concern. However, why could I recall the specifics of Mom placing me into the red and white rocker, with my arm in a sling, without being able to remember what had caused me to need the sling to begin with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At twelve, my right elbow would occasionally click or get \u2018stuck\u2019 &#8212; usually after a time of stacking wood or pulling nails from two-by-fours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou always were hard-headed,\u201d Dad had scoffed, when I asked. \u201cYou were so stubborn, you actually pulled your own arm out of the socket.\u201d He had blinked both eyes at me a couple of times with his twinkling, \u2018knowing look\u2019, and continued. \u201cWe were at the store, and I was holding your hand. You wanted to go to the toy section, and when I said no, and started walking the other way, you pulled so hard, you yanked your own arm out of the socket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad clicked his tongue and scolded, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the only time you did that with me, either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brows raised at this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Father nodded, \u201cNot an easy kid to control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the same time as receiving this explanation, I lay on my back in a tangle of unmade bed covers, swinging a broken chain necklace propeller-like. It wrapped my finger as I recited each multiplication fact, trying to keep pace with its metronome rhythm. Joshua drove his Matchbox truck along a rugged terrain of sneakers, laundry, and notebooks on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven-times-three-is-twenty-one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chain was completely wrapped, and I swung it open in the other direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven-times-four-is&#8211;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picturing the sevens-tables I\u2019d just written five times, the grey box that swallows my memories darkened that answer. However, part of the fours-table was still in my mind\u2019s eye. So, I fell back on a fact I trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six times four is 24, 25, 26, 27, I count-on to get to, \u201ctwenty-eight!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chain ended its spiral sooner than I was able to answer. I spun it the other way, starting again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven-times-three-is-twenty-one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stared at the ceiling through the blur of the spinning chain, trying to develop a trustworthy picture of the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven-times-four-is-twenty-eight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before bedtime, My Father tested me, \u201cThree times eight.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I don\u2019t know three times eight. Is that 24? Two times eight is sixteen&#8211; I count-on, chunking the number eight into two groups of four&#8211; 17, 18, 19, 20! 21, 22&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slap. Dad back-handed my upper arm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not quick enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven times four.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting with the fact I trusted, I count-on from there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Seven times three is twenty-one, 22, 23, 24! 25, 26 \u2014 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven times three.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwenty-one!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeven times four.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Seven times three is twenty-one, 22, 23, 24! 25, 26 \u2014 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Neuroscience article on \u2018Lost Memories\u2019 reveals that, \u201cStress is a biologically significant factor that, by altering brain cell properties, can disturb cognitive processes such as learning and memory, and consequently limit the quality of human life. Extensive &#8230; research has shown that the hippocampus is not only crucially involved in memory formation, but is also highly sensitive to stress.\u201d (Kim, Diamond, 2002) <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_6');\">[6]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_6\"> Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002, <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_6\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_6\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script> <sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_reference_7');\">[7]<\/sup><span class=\"footnote_tooltip\" id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7\"> https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12042880 <\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(\"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_7\").tooltip({\t\ttip: \"#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_7\",\t\ttipClass: \"footnote_tooltip\",\t\teffect: \"fade\",\t\tfadeOutSpeed: 100,\t\tpredelay: 400,\t\tposition: \"top right\",\t\trelative: true,\t\toffset: [10, 10]\t});<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\">\t<p><span onclick=\"footnote_expand_reference_container();\">References<\/span><span style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ <a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"cursor:pointer;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container();\">+<\/a> ]<\/span><\/p><\/div><div id=\"footnote_references_container\" style=\"\">\t<table class=\"footnote-reference-container\">\t\t<tbody>\t\t<tr>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_index\"><span id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1\">1.<\/span><\/td>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_link\"><span onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1');\">&#8593;<\/span><\/td>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"> Nicola Davis, Suppressing traumatic memories can cause amnesia, research suggests, New study could explain why people suffering from PTSD and other psychological disorders can have difficulty forming everyday memories, 2016 https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/mar\/15\/suppressing-traumatic-memories-can-cause-amnesia-research-suggests <\/td><\/tr><tr>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_index\"><span id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_2\">2.<\/span><\/td>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_link\"><span onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor('footnote_plugin_tooltip_2');\">&#8593;<\/span><\/td>\t<td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"> Robert J. 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