PTSD, Depression, and the Stories the Brain Tells to Survive Memory doesn’t fail because someone is weak. It bends because the brain is doing its best to survive. When trauma enters the picture—especially early trauma or unresolved grief—memory stops functioning like a clear timeline and starts functioning like an emotional…

How Trauma, Loss, and Influence Shape What We Remember Memory feels solid. Certain. Like something we can point to and say, this happened exactly this way. But the truth is, memory doesn’t work like a recording. It works more like a story our brain rewrites over time—especially when trauma, loss,…