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Default Mar 19, 2008 at 02:20 AM
 
Maybe...
But then maybe not.

There are many self help books out there that try and persuade people that if you find you do x or y or z then the only explanation of that is that you have been abused. If you don't think you have been abused then the only explanation for that is that you have repressed the knowledge of the abuse.

That simply isn't so (that the only explanation is that there was trauma of 'objectively sickening severity).

Events don't have to be of 'objectively sickening severity' for someone to LEGITIMATELY feel hurt and scared and terrified and so on and so forth... That simply isn't so. And to say otherwise... Is to undermine the legitimate suffering of people who HAVEN'T been abused.
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