I think “stuck memories immune to updating” is something that I’d expect to happen if you let [the-sort-of-thing-I’m-talking-about] sit rather than get processed.
If someone has a relative who dies and they are very sad the next week, no doctor would diagnose them as depressed. The person would only be diagnosed as depressed if they don’t process the experience.
If you let these things sit, the body engages in a process to disassociate the experience which reduces the emotional input a bit but which then also makes updating harder.
It’s useful to distinguish “bad experience that’s in the state of being processed” from “bad experience that’s outside of processing”. Gordon seems to use trauma only to refer to the later category and you seem to want to include the term to cover both.
If someone has a relative who dies and they are very sad the next week, no doctor would diagnose them as depressed. The person would only be diagnosed as depressed if they don’t process the experience.
If you let these things sit, the body engages in a process to disassociate the experience which reduces the emotional input a bit but which then also makes updating harder.
It’s useful to distinguish “bad experience that’s in the state of being processed” from “bad experience that’s outside of processing”. Gordon seems to use trauma only to refer to the later category and you seem to want to include the term to cover both.