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In Reply to: Re: All too tragic, columnists that don't do their research posted by Jo on April 06, 2008 at 00:09:22:
I know someone who had recovered memories of her abuse through therapy, but had under-exagerated it as you say, being very careful not to assert things she wasn't sure of. It happened before she turned six. I was there when she brought it up in conversation for the first time, asked about it, and a witness verified her abuse. The only thing that she got wrong was who exactly had done it. She had pinned it on the wrong relative. But the fact was that it had happened.
As for me, there is a genuine amnesic gap, a whole chunk of years in my life that I have almost no memories of. It was when I was severely abused. My defense mechanisms reacted to the trauma by throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so that I not only forgot the abuse but everything else too. I haven't tried to recover anything through therapy. I wonder what would happen if I did that and got accused of having False Memory Syndrome. Everyone who was there including me knows I was abused.
