Why would I be angry??? I was just looking to clarify...

My point was this - memories have this weird way they function, in that they are highly susceptible to suggestion while at the same time experienced physiologically as if they are actively happening. I'll break it down into parts...

First, the more common knowledge : It's easy to influence and skew recalled memories. That's why hypnosis isn't considered valid evidence in courtrooms. All it takes is wording questions and placing triggers in a certain way that the person is more likely to -believe- that something could have happened. I'm not saying that someone basically created the suggestion that you were abused, just that it's easy to change memories after the fact. For example - my mother has told me certain things have happened when I was a toddler. While I didn't have any concrete memories of it before, I had something more akin to snapshots from that age. Having the story told to me, mentally I found these snapshots pieced together to form a makeshift scenario of that "memory". It isn't a true memory, as I have no way of really knowing what the details of the moment were, and I'm pretty sure my subconscious simply took what it had and workes it together in a way that made sense.

Next, taking these not-necessarily-accurate memories, the simple act of recalling a memory triggers a physiological reaction in the body that basically recreates the sensations of that memory. So you're faced with the "maybe this happened" memory, and it creates a reaction of distress and discomfort. But by actively recalling this "memory", your mind isn't able to distinguish between the past and the present. So you experience the maybe memory the same way you experiece a real memory, creating a self-proving cycle.

((Fun fact :: The memory reaction is both why we say people "live in the past", as well as why we address dreams as true experiences despite the fact that they are completely internal.))