This is so accurate, especially for me. I have people approaching me from my childhood now that I’m back in my hometown trying to do small talk and ask how I’ve been and where I’ve been since I moved out if state for 5 years before coming back to FL, and it scares me so much because these people clearly known me at some point but I genuinely don’t know who they are because I probably knew them during a difficult time of my childhood and my brain doesn’t even remember them or most of my childhood… this is why I’m so big on mental health and taking care of yourself emotionally because it will effect you for the rest of your life if you don’t care for your mind.
Having MEMORY LOSS from depression and trauma is a weird experience because people don’t understand how scary it is when depression and trauma start affecting your memory. Like you really start forgetting whole moments of your life, conversations, things people told you, how you used to act, and even parts of yourself. It’s like your brain got so overwhelmed from surviving everything that it started deleting things just to protect you.