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Originally Posted by Michanne
No, I am the last person to go after "repressed memories". I thought all that was bs speaking as someone who has some of those grey area memories. Zero point in trying to "uncovering" them, IMO but that is another story.
The point of the study >was< to show causal reason. That was the point of prospective and retrospective information. Feel free to read it yourself. There is a big difference between saying "all sorts of things happened and we think one or more of them might be responsible" which is what you're saying and "we can see that if we trace this backwards and forwards and we get the same results based on this common type of occurrence" which is what the study is saying. The difference is you can start to trace physical (neurological) patterns >because< of causality. Being able to do that is BIG. Again, the link in my post is about the physical part of trauma in the brain.
Which is Worse ? The Memory or the Maltreatment? | Brain Blogger
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Okay, read through the article. I think you're misrepresenting what it says tbh.
It doesn't say that trauma causes mental illness. It says that it might exacerbate it. Which is to be expected and was never questioned...
This study specifically only shows a correlation between trauma and mental illness...
It doesn't say anything about most mental illnesses stemming from trauma or most mentally ill people having a history of trauma...
It only refers to depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, which isn't the same as "most mental illness"...