what is it called when you block something from your brains memory?

Answer 1

There are several possible things that could be occurring here depending on the mechanism involved:
Suppression is a conscious attempt to banish distressing memories out of conscious awareness, but generally they are not truly inaccessable if the mechanism is suppression.
Repression is unconscious and functions to push memories below the level of conscious awareness so that they are not willingly accessible.
Dissociation is unconscious and functions to wall off or partition memories into discrete "chunks" that are separated from your conscious awareness. It can be partial (as in cases where the emotional content is split off from the actual experience-think of the trauma survivor who can recount every detail of a horrific experience but does so without any emotion) or extremely complete (as in cases of dissociative identity disorder-multiple personality-where entire memories, emotions and behaviors are completely split off from one another and tend to function independently of one another).
The best explanation of the difference between repression and dissociation is that repression is horizontal splitting and dissociation is vertical splitting.

Answer 2

Hello it's called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is when something really bad happens to you and your brain blocks it out. It can affect your life without knowing. Some people remember years later. :-)

Answer 3

Suppression - when you consciously block the idea from your memory
Repression - when done unconsciously

Answer 4

I believe it is Repression. Denial is when you are cognitively aware....but choose to "look the other way" in regards to its relativity.

Answer 5

mental block

Answer 6

selective memory / denial

Answer 7

I used to know the answer to that, but I forgot.

Answer 8

It's called REPRESSION.

Answer 9

amnesia

Answer 10

DENIAL