everyone laughed, the teacher did nothing… and you walked out like a movie scene of humiliation.
But that’s NOT what actually happened.
Or maybe you wrote: “I fell down in public.”
But later your brain upgrades it into: “I fell… everyone stopped… people recorded it… someone even replayed the video later and laughed about it for weeks.”
It never happened like that.
Your brain just amplified the pain.
And the scariest part?
If someone argues with you about it… you will defend your false memo