This post is nearly insufficient for an aphorism. I had a thought though- I liked Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory'. Art endures, yet so do memories while retrospective increases with distance- and that view can be engaging, illuminating and wizening.
If PTSD was easy to delete the technique might have been mass produced. Memory of past traumatic events doesn’t disappear, nor should it. It is worthwhile discovering some way of detachment without memory loss.
I guess time fades or dilutes traumatic events. Some traumatic events do recur in reality and not just memory. Being at sea isn’t traumatic yet the waviness experience recurs on solid ground, in the brain. Empirical signals trigger memories good and bad.
Memory of challenges regarded as trauma inform experience and is a survival mechanism. If people forgot that a traumatic event was bad they might repeat the ‘trauma’.
