There are links between what we are today and traumas we experienced before. A stress today can cause us to fall back to a previous state of distress. One way of coping is to blank everything out, if no better way can be found to deal with it.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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