Posted by Happyflower on April 21, 2007, at 23:38:07
Okay, I forgot I asked about this a while ago, and I never expanded why I was asking. I am not asking due to anything to do with me personally but I thought since some of you do split, maybe you might be able to help me.
Okay I am learning about cognitive brain psych and we learned that a part of the brain called the amygdala gives a emotional tone to the sensory imput of memories even at a very early age.
Okay so far? Well what I was wondering is that someone suffering from PTSD, sometimes is trigger by such things as a massage, they react and are triggered into PTSD without knowing why.Now normally they say we don't have memories before age 2, but what I am wondering if it is because we are unable to comprehend or communticate what is going on at that early age.
They are saying now that the amygdala might remember things before the age of 2, as physical memories called emotional tones that can't be cognitively comprehended because that part of the brain isn't fully developed yet.
So lets say that you might have been abused at a very young age, you were unable to communicate it or comprehend totally what was happening, but the amygdala remembers the physical memory. So lets say you have a massage or someone touches you in a certain way, it might trigger those memories and you don't know what the memories are or why you feel the way you do.
Now PTSD flashbacks are simular, because your body remembers the physical stuff that happened to you at an older age, and you experience a flashback, but you have some cognitive sense of it because you are older.
Now when it come to spliting, I was told sometime you split and don't know why and it leaves you confused for a long time and upset. What I was wondering if it really could be part of PTSD flashback on something that happened before you were cognitively able to comprehend what the trauma was. Because physically you remember due to your amygdala working at a very young age, but yet you don't know what was happening because you were too young to know.
My Prof. wasn't sure how to answer this, it was a new question for him and he is a neuropsychologist and aren't aware of any exact studies of this. Especially since split personalities are not being taught in a lot of psych classes now. He was one of the 1st prof to even talk about the topic.
This is what I am wondering if spliting might be a form of PTSD due to something that happened at a very young age. An age were we were unable to comprehend what was taken place. Any thoughts or ideas?
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