Can anyone corroborate it? That might be the only way to know for sure. Even if it's just some of the details. Like, in the case of my recovered repressed memory, a bunch of stuff came back at once, including a conversation that my mother had with the lady across the hall. I didn't actually go and ask my mother if she remembered that, but I could. There were just so many things that all added up that I am positive that my memory is real, and the way it just suddenly came to me out of the blue, I didn't have any reason at the time to make it up either.

I'm not sure if this helps or not, but I hope so. It might help for you to talk to someone about your memory, and work out your feelings about it.

Whether or not it is real only really matters in terms of what you want to do about it. Even if it isn't real, you have real feelings about it, and there was some reason for it to have popped up when it did. It doesn't really matter, for instance, whether my memory was real. My abuser was an old man then, and I would be surprised if he is even still alive. Even if he were, he is in another country, and what he did was not enough that anyone would be interested in trying to prosecute him for it. It's just plain not worth the effort to make accusations. But I probably do need to work out my feelings and how it has impacted my life anyway.

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