Severe psychological trauma creates impenetrable mental barriers against pre-war memories

Evidence

The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think about any moment in my life before the war. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 569

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 569
• XREF: connects to: Traumatic combat loss triggered uncontrolled firing and emotional numbness in child soldiers — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 460; Severe trauma can sever a person’s felt continuity with their own life — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 510; Reconstructing a childhood crime from adult memory is an untranslatable problem — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 498 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Severe trauma can sever a person’s felt continuity with their own life #expands (0.85) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 510
• Grief recovery paradoxically makes the lost person more vivid #qualifies (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 313
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 547