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Riptide said:
I have never met anyone that had repressed memories.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Well, I had them. And no one put them into my head. I recovered them on my own with no warning, out of the blue. For me, the memories were simply ones I had not remembered for many years, since they happened. They were very painful, so I guess I just blocked them out of my mind. Then many years later they came back to me. The blocking of the painful memories is just a coping mechanism. It's pretty natural, I believe, a way of surviving. I never doubted the memories and even became able to ask family members about them and family remembered them too. But what happened to me hadn't been traumatic in the same way for the "onlookers" so they hadn't repressed the memories like I did. I actually think it's kind of cool that the mind knows how to repress such painful stuff. We are looking out for ourselves!