Trauma can erase specific memories while intensifying religious practice

Evidence

“IS THERE SUCH A THING as repressed memory?” Rami said when I asked about his feelings the second time his father was arrested. “I think that’s what happened, because there are just blank spots during this time.” He doesn’t remember where he was when he learned about his father’s second arrest. He doesn’t recall his emotions at the time. But what he does remember is how the narrative of his faith picked up again. He started hanging out more with the other Muslim kids at school. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 846

Categorization

• XREF: The link between childhood trauma and both memory gaps and intensified religiosity connects to the small-acts-of-decorum thread of how people process helplessness and pain. — connects to: Neurological trauma can create an identity without origin or memory — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 3217