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Now, let us look at how amnesic memories or parts are formed. When we look at the time duration of trauma (see Figure 3-8), we know that trauma with moderate pain can start and then continue for some duration until it ends. We can remember moderate trauma easily and can tell somebody about the traumatic experience. But when the trauma is new and has never been experienced before —namely, when there is no memory to manage the situation, and the trauma either evokes extreme emotions or is experienced as life-threaten-ing (for example, a near-drowning experience) — the brain mobilizes. This means that the intense emotions mobilize memories that operate independently of the Main Personality to create responses to survive. Because the Main Personality is not generating behavior, it is rapidly “pushed out” of the Active Experience to become inactive or dormant. At this point, a trauma part forms. The executive function associates with the new trauma structure and participates in organizing the memories triggered by the intense emotions to create survival behavior. The memory of the trauma part includes all thoughts and behavior from the start of the trauma to some point near the end of the trauma. The amnesic or trauma part forms while the Main Personality is out of the Active Experience. When the intensity of the trauma winds down at some point, the Main Personality rushes back into the Active Experience and pushes the trauma part out of the Active Experience. Most of the behavior of the amnesic part is assembled from all the same behaviors available to the Main Personality at the time of the trauma. I will explain this in detail.

Let us look at the process from the point of view of the Active Experience. We have the Active Experience at “Before the Trauma” (see Figure 3-9). The line at “Trauma Starts” is the beginning of the traumatic experience.