There are some things I have to work hard to properly remember. I'm not sure this difficulty remains productive after the initial phase of emotional reactivity.
And there is no "initial phase of emotional reactivity". It's a continuous spectrum of reactions and reactions to those reactions. Real trauma is like being hit by a train, or getting cancer. Yeah, you'll recover, but you'll never quite be as healthy as you were before the event even if your recovery is miraculous.
That's life, period.
Yeah, you'll recover, but you'll never quite be as healthy as you were before the event even if your recovery is miraculous.
I'm not quite a former war prisoner, but I'm objectively a more effective person in many ways because of what I went through. I am worse off some ways, too, sure. But again, that's life. Little comes free.
I want to remember.