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Originally Posted by Michanne
Calm down. This isn't about trying to convince people of trauma they don't know about. I used the words "theory" and "almost" intentionally to indicate somebody did a study or two and "not everybody". The theory has to do with mental damage that theoretically occurs vs memory. This is a very important distinction. They tested retrospectively and prospectively using questionnaires, dsm and child welfare records. If you had trauma your chances go up astronomically hence the "most" qualifier. But it is due to >damage< not memory therefore "remembering something you had no memory of" isn't part of the study. What they now need is identifying what got damaged. That is what the link was about. That doesn't mean people with perfect childhoods don't get sick. It merely points to stronger correlations between physical anomalies, damage, disorder, whatever you want, and illness
Sheesh.... Shoot me now...
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I think I know where jimi... is coming from, though. I think he might have misunderstood what you said, because I know I did.
What I thought you means was about the theory that was going around in the 80s or 90s about repressed memories. There were a lot of so-called "experts" who believed that almost all women and mentally ill people had been traumatized and simply repressed it. Even the ones who could remember their childhoods and knew they hadn't been abused or traumatized MUST have because in their minds, that's why people had problems. It was all very Freudian and pseudo-scientific.
Nowadays we know that true repression is actually pretty rare and only some disorders are the direct result of trauma.
No doubt having been traumatized makes you less able to deal with other issues, but so do things like stress and diet. It's not really a causal thing.