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molested?
I have been going to a therapist for a while now and she always says that i show signs of someone who was molested and she really thinks that i was. I do not remember ever being molested, but i just finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. AT the end the main character realizes that his aunt used to molest him, i know that it is only a fictional book but everything in this book was like exactly everything that i am going through. And i guess basically i am just asking if someone knew how to explain to me that someone could forget that they were molested, or if that happens in real life besides just books? or if there is some disorder that makes you like block out a painful memory or something.
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your body blocks out harmful memorys and yes it is possible you were molested and didnt know...
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You have already received useful answers. You must be very cautious of a therapist suggesting things that you don't remember. Also, if your therapist has suggested hypnosis in order to 'recover' lost memories, I would certainly go to a different therapist with no connections to the old one. You may find more useful information here:
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It is perfectly possible to forget being molested. I studied psychology and there are many cases of women who have been the victim of a molestation case when young who have absolutely no memory of this when older.
Its a defense mechanism for the brain. It hurts to recollect painful experiences so the brain stops you remembering it.
So it is perfectly possible, but there have been cases where people have been told by therapists that they have been molested and even had memories of the so called attacks etc when its actually been shown not to happen.
So in short, yes it is perfectly possible.
I wish you all the best.
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It is possible that this experience was so painful that, unknowingly, you are preventing yourself from remembering it.
Or perhaps it happened at a stage in your life where you were too young to remember it.
However, therapists/counselors/psychologists can make you think that something in your life happen simply by repeatedly suggesting that it did happen.
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Human memory is susceptible to modification. There have been cases where therapists have caused people to remember vividly, but incorrectly that they were abused. It has ruined peoples' lives.
Read this:
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From that page:
* A competent psychotherapist will attempt to stick to the facts as you report them. He or she will be careful to let the information evolve as your memory does and not to steer you toward a particular conclusion or interpretation.
* A competent psychotherapist is likely to acknowledge that current knowledge does not allow the definite conclusion that a memory is real or false without other corroborating evidence.
Your therapist is a quack. I would stop seeing her.
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