Using computer. Copilot: “Emotional decay can look like this: You remember what happened, but you can’t remember how it felt — because the feelings slowly faded, got buried, or were never safe enough to feel in the first place. Over time, the emotional part of the memory “thins out.”

The facts stay, but the feelings go dim. That’s decay: a slow loss of emotional color, warmth, or connection to your own inner experience.

Why it happens in childhood trauma: A child who grows up in chaos or fear learns to shut down feelings to survive. When that happens day after day, year after year, the emotional layer of experience gets worn down. You still know the story, but the emotional truth of it is missing, muted, or unreachable.

So yes — remembering events but not remembering how they felt is one of the clearest signs of emotional decay.

This is how the mind protects a child who has no escape: by numbing, shrinking, or disconnecting from emotions that would have been too overwhelming to feel at the time. As an adult, this shows up as blankness, confusion, or the sense that memories have ‘no color.'”-

The above (including the word “confusion”, Confused) was not about you, or about me specifically- just general info.

Back to 3 posts ago: “Remember you shared only a few posts ago that someone told you… that when you talked about the violence etc., of growing up with your mother, you sounded like you were reading an article in a newspaper?… Do you 🤔 that indeed you weren’t affected?”

Anita