I have patches of my childhood where I have far fewer memories - very noticeable missing pieces. For about 20-25 years, I (and my mother and sister) have suspected there was some sort of sexual abuse somewhere in my childhood, based on personality traits, fears, dreams, and "sensory" memories, but I have never been able to remember the who or the when or the what. I was talking about it in therapy for awhile, but I was only becoming angrier and angrier that I couldn't remember something from my own life, so I stopped dealing with it.

I consider myself a pretty strong and stable person when it comes to dealing with things, so I don't know why my subconscious would continue to keep my own experiences from me. I would think that now that I'm an adult, and have an excellent therapist, I ought to be able to remember now, and it really irritates me that I can't.