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ABC News: Psychiatrists say people may try to forget certain memories to deal with COVID trauma

It was last October when Emily Oster wrote a piece for The Atlantic proposing a “pandemic amnesty.” “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID,” was the argument. Hey, in the beginning, nobody knew anything: We didn’t know that cloth masks were useless, we didn’t know that lockdowns were useless, etc. Sure, there was some overreach by the government: Remember President Joe Biden wanting to send OSHA inspectors to businesses to track down employees who didn’t have their vax cards and fire them on the spot?

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ABC News is working on a variation of that theme. Now that COVID-19 is endemic, psychiatrists say that people may try to forget certain memories to protect themselves from the trauma brought on by the pandemic.

Mary Kekatos reports:

When somebody is exposed to a traumatic event, there are two ways memories can be suppressed. Some people can bury the memory to forget some or most of what happened while others just work on ways to prevent the memory from coming back to them.

“For most people, when we experience a trauma, the memory is laid down quite effectively, actually,” Jennifer Holzhauer, a clinical case manager in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, told ABC News. “And, in fact, the most common symptoms that we have is that we can’t forget about it. In fact, most of us want to not have the memories, we call them intrusive thoughts.”

She continued, “So a very common response to that is to try to avoid anything that reminds us of what happened, that will make those memories come back again. Many times, people will try to suppress that memory.”

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Kind of like how the media tried to suppress the lab-leak theory as a conspiracy theory.

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No, we’re not repressing any memories. We remember it all.

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