The limbic system's disregard for time means that making things right in the present can be perceived as making things right in the past, driven by trauma.

“the lyic system and the stress system when activated um distorts our perception of time and that um this is what he was uh saying leads to the what's sometimes called the repetition compulsion people try and will repeat the same uh Place themselves into mildly to severely traumatic circumstances over and over again”

“So then they're trying to make it right because the limbic system doesn't care about the clock or the calendar. If you can make it right now. You make it right in the past, because that system doesn't care about the past. It's driven by trauma, so then the person's trying to figure out something that is different.”