Motivated forgetting

Motivated forgetting is when a person wants to block out a particular event, thought, or feeling and so they do things in their mind to try and make those things go away. It's like if you have a really embarrassing memory and you want to forget it, so you do things like not think about it, not talk about it, or just try really hard to forget it. It's a way to cope with bad memories and it can help people feel better.