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Originally Posted by CassyO
Its not a case of believing, or not believing in repression.
Brain function from birth to death goes through phases, and learns. Before a certain age (consensus seems to centre around 5 years old), 'memories' as they are to adults, can not be processed in the same way because those connections just don't exist yet. Your body and your mind know what happened, but you can't store and retrieve memories like you would as an adult not experiencing trauma. However, there are plenty of other proven indicators of childhood trauma (usually seen in behaviour patterns) that you may or may not identify with.
My suggestion would be that you read up on dissociation. You will quickly know whether what you are reading about refers to you or not.
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I have a hard time believing that I (or anyone else) could have been raped or molested in some way and have
virtually no memory of it. As I understand the scientific community doesn't buy the notion of repression either. To say nothing of human memory being kind of unreliable (my own autobiographical memory sucks, there are numerous small things I'm uncertain of when they happened. I don't have a very narrative view of my life, it's more episodic).
I tried looking for a little info and one thing stuck out at me:
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Dissociation may affect a person subjectively in the form of “made” thoughts, feelings, and actions. These are thoughts or emotions seemingly coming out of nowhere, or finding oneself carrying out an action as if it were controlled by a force other than oneself (Dell, 2001). Typically, a person feels “taken over” by an emotion that does not seem to makes sense at the time.
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That sounds about right, but I hardly want to base a claim on this one thing. I'm still sticking with the "scared myself" theory unless I can get some kind of evidence otherwise. Because this doesn't make sense.
It doesn't help that the whole "repressed memory" thing has been used for scams and serious manipulation; I'd rather not risk putting myself up to that.