There is a tremendous difference between repressed memories and "recovered" memories.
Many people will repress traumatic/anguishing experiences----and this is at any age, not just childhood. One does not "recover" memories; either you have memories or you do not. Many people are influenced by quack psychologists/therapists to blame their current life problems on "abuse" that has been cued by the "therapist."
By no means am I excusing real abuse, physical, sexual, psychological, but the number of those "abused" has sky-rocketed over the last 20 years, and most of them are under the care of "therapists."
Well I agree with that actually. I know 3 adult children who went to the same therapist and all "recovered" the memory of being molested by their father. I am suspicious to say the least. But they did not have all the other symptoms in between the supposed abuse and the recovered memory, so how do you confirm it? I don't. I've seen the real thing -- more than once -- and it is devastating.
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