What a shitty headline and article itself. The much better idea to consider is that people are re-creating (re-constructing) their traumatic memories again and

What a shitty headline and article itself. The much better idea to consider is that people are re-creating (re-constructing) their traumatic memories again and again, unable (or unwilling in some part) to let them go. So, what they get is a recollection stored on top of recollection and so on. When we re-construct the memory we re-create it and then store (alter) the result. I think I can remember my own childhood traumas (I had many) but what I actually can fetch from my memory is the reconstruction I used to have. The cognitive therapy is working exactly because I can alter (re-frame) my memories, by reconstructing them, altering them and storing back. In particular I can reduce the intensity of the emotional "color" attached to my reconstruction. I had such and such crap. Ok, no problem. It's done and it's gone. In Buddhist terms it sound as "the karma is already applied" - your past personality was already changed by those events, but since then you got a lot of another changes. Actually, any thought alters you, and that is why Buddhist people says that thought and deeds are the same. Your thought actually is a your deed.