Posted by DAisym on August 10, 2007, at 14:33:34
In reply to I am NOT a Liar afterall!!, posted by B2chica on August 10, 2007, at 11:37:14
B2 -- I'm sure you've read that memories morph and get attached to other things when they are stored. Being wrong about specifics does not make you a liar. I've struggled with this a great deal. My therapist, and my group therapist, try to reassure me that mixing up ages does not negate what I know happened to me. In fact, it is very common, particularly since we dissociate through much of it.
From a brain chemical stance, having a huge surge of cortisol can really change how you remember things. Reactivating one strand can cause many connected strands to come into consciousness. Memory is just weird and there is a lot we don't know about it yet.
And yes, I've read all the recovered memory stuff. What is important isn't whether the walls were pink or white, it is how you felt about what was happening to you. In my studies, we had a case of a young women who had very invasive medical proceedures done to her from 7 to 9 years old. At 22 she felt like she'd been raped. Even knowing it was necessary and medical, her trauma was no less real.
I'm glad you have a safe place to process all of this. It isn't easy and over and over again we must come to grips with knowing more that had previously been hidden. Again, doesn't make you a liar - makes you a little kid who had bad things done to her.
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