Hi PH. I can't really offer any advice, but everything you said has happened to me too. I've read so much about this phenomena - trying to understand what to believe and what to not believe of my 'memories'. I haven't yet reached a conclusion. One thing I think your T may have not thought much about, is that what feels like a life or death situation to a young child, is completely different to what would feel like a life or death situation to a grown adult. For that level of amnesia to exist, the child must have experienced something that was just too much to process.