Prolonged exposure to chronic stress also causes functional brain damage. I have created a separate episode on this which you can watch right now by clicking the “i” button. Functional brain damage is when your brain structures change and memory storage, consolidation, and retrieval don’t happen properly. In simple words, you are not able to remember things, and that’s why you struggle with dissociative amnesia, which is another phenomenon.
Dissociative amnesia is a coping mechanism where your brain forgets all the painful things because if it remembers them, you will be in constant pain. So it buries them deep down in the layers of your unconscious mind beyond your capacity to recall them. That’s why a lot of us, narcissistic abuse survivors of childhood trauma, are not able to remember what exactly happened in our childhood. We just know something happened, but we can’t exactly remember what happened. That’s why, from ages 3 to 9, it can seem like a blank slate. You don’t remember what happened as a coping mechanism, which unfortunately also gets triggered in a narcissistic relationship, making it difficult for you to comprehend, understand, or read things because your cortex is not functioning properly. We call this diminished executive functioning. This whole phenomenon is called deep traumatization, and the narcissist knows exactly how to weaponize it against you.
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