When a stimuli triggers memories causing intense feelings that may appear to be associated with shame or regret; very painful, but of a mental kind, they may be so short that one cannot comprehend the memory.
Seemingly to be a side effect of stimulants.
I think I found a scientific term for this once, but I don't remember it.
When I'm with others and clench my fist or make a squeak, I don't have to lie anymore, I can honestly say "just a memory cramp"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)