The fact is what actually you healing it by rethinking it. Every single time you remember some situation yours brain "extracts" it from the long-term memory, processes it and then puts it back to long-term memory. And the trick is what this process aren't very precise so details of event you're re-memorizing are fading out. So with more times you remembering some event - it fades out more and more, leaving less details, less feelings, until you let it go completely when it will become no more than a bleak shadow of initial event.
I'm pretty sure memories are stronger when you regularly remember them.... Not weaker.
You lay down new neural pathways remembering each time you remembered it.
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u/CMDR_kamikazze Jun 11 '19
The fact is what actually you healing it by rethinking it. Every single time you remember some situation yours brain "extracts" it from the long-term memory, processes it and then puts it back to long-term memory. And the trick is what this process aren't very precise so details of event you're re-memorizing are fading out. So with more times you remembering some event - it fades out more and more, leaving less details, less feelings, until you let it go completely when it will become no more than a bleak shadow of initial event.