PositiveLight
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Agreed. I too have a phobia of hearing sirens and start calling my loved ones who live close to confirm they are alright. I panic until I know they are all fine. We all live only blocks apart so if I even barely hear one I start calling. I wake up to them at night in a panic. Totally feel you there! I have no idea why my paranoia over sirens effects me so much. Hopefully one day I too will figure out why. Thanks for that insight! You've got me thinking now.Nah, if he did what it looks more and more like he did, no one could "wipe" his memory like you can wipe a hard drive. It's true that sometimes a traumatic memory is not preserved in its entirety though. I will give an example from my own life. After my mother died, I had a terrible phobia of hearing sirens in the night. It would always throw me into anxiety, and I could never figure out why. This went on for years and years. I finally got over it. I was talking to my sister about it and she said, "Oh I know why you were scared. Don't you remember that Dad had to call an ambulance for Mom a couple of times?" I had NO memory of that at all, but as a young child, would have been scared to see my mom being taken away in an ambulance and connected that fear with the siren. I still cannot remember anything about my mom being taken away in an ambulance. (p.s. I must have been at least 8 or 9 years old since my mother died when I was 10.)
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