As in, the felt sense of an extremely faint memory feels identical to me to the sense of a very old dream. I literally cannot distinguish the two without outside help or corresponding markers from other, more concrete memories.
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even memories change over time…and the whole memories get ‘rewritten’ when you remember them
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Yup. Like people who learn sign language late in life having childhood memories of themselves communicating in sign language ... before they ever learned it
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When street names and factual parts of memories come back with the flashbacks, that would help to confirm
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Yeah, if it were like, facts you couldn't have known otherwise. Unfortunately I suspect most childhood abuse takes place in familiar surroundings which would make that hard to tell.
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My take on the usefulness of exploring repressed memories is that in many/most cases, the process of writing a narrative which allows you to feel relief does most of the work of imparting relief, regardless of object-level truth of the narrative.
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Repressed memories aren't a thing. PTSD is the result of trauma, not forgetting the whole thing
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The memories/flashbacks present via ptsd
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Read stuff by Elizabeth Loftus, Julia Shaw and others who have researched the fallibility of memory and childhood abuse
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