Nicholas Alexander BuckendorfYes – self-induced PTSD – that is how I see it as well. and the mental loops, I suspect are not ethereal things but ARE quite physical; I believe memories are fixed in a similar way that carpet fibers are taught to lie flat by the pressure of a heavy piece of furniture and can be made to forget by the use of Steam and combing; shaking your head can make you forget som…ething.- sloshing the water and chemicals around physically moving what you were last thinking about out of its last seen location.”