repressed

If the latter is true, everything happening in the present could just be some sort of manifestation of their repressed trauma.

"They have already tortured me and repressed me, but they will not silence me. My voice is the only thing I have left."

And now it feels like the whole nation has repressed it, has refused to acknowledge how bad it was.

Just one month later, Mrs Assad was criticised for remaining silent while her husband violently repressed pro-democracy campaigners at the start of the Syrian civil war.

Was there something, buried in her brain, that she had repressed?