The phrase “forgive and forget” is a common slogan and recommendation. But does it make sense for trauma survivors? While researching for my book, You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your ...

Understanding the Emotional Wound That Doesn’t Always Show on the Surface. Trauma is the emotional and psychological response to an event—or series of events—that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope ...

Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long after the danger has passed. This failure to extinguish fear memories has long puzzled ...

So much of my life has been spent walking to forget the trauma I endured; but recently I walked to remember the Oklahoma City bombing that occurred on April 19, 1995, and took the lives of 168 people, ...

The benefits of forgetting are easy to overlook. When someone forgets something that they wish to remember, the absence of that information is disruptive and often caused by processes that give the ...

When we’ve experienced wrongs and trauma at the hands of the people and institutions that once supported us, how do we forgive — and heal? When Celeste Gracia was 17, her religiously conservative ...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Cannabis-like Brain Chemical Blocks Out Bad Memories<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>In man's relentless ...