trauma- figment or reality

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silasraven

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umm well, i keep having a reocurring theme in my life of something and im start to admit that it is true that it did happen to me. it was supressed for good reason but how am i supposed to be sure its real and not something ive just continual see happening and reading about. i believe theres a reason for all of it. i just dont want to fuck up on this and it be mind playing tricks
 
Nusky

Nusky

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If you constantly think about an event and you're not sure if it happened, it probably did happen.
 
sso

sso

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not necessarily (not if he heard about suppressed memories and then started to worry he had one)


unless you can specifically remember something, its not so.

do you have flashbacks? (image in your mind of something that happened (too young to remember))

but you are so unspecific.

recurring themes?

you talk as if you worry you had been molested as a kid and suppressed those memories.
 
Nusky

Nusky

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When dealing with traumatic events, my best advice is to analyze why you think it happened and try to remember as much of the event as you can. If you know how it all went down then it probably happened. The path to being OK is accepting that it happened to you, realizing that it probably won't happen again, and continuing on with your life. Buy your self something nice and expensive, say fuck them and just live your life. It's all you can do. You'll still occasionally think about it, but you'll quickly realize that your life is great now and it doesn't matter.

Anyone who says it didn't happen is a douche and just causing more harm than good. Believe in your self, not what other people tell you. It doesn't matter if you're wrong or right about it. Believe in what you believe and you'll feel a lot better about it.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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A manic break can generate false impressions/memories of trauma. I was near someone some years ago who had a massive manic episode, with escalating false memories/perceptions. It was traumatic for both of us, especially since proper treatment for (...)'s condition were delayed by a misdiagnosis of post-traumatic stress. cn
 
sso

sso

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yes i was not saying that he definetly does not have repressed memories.

i was saying he might not.

and with no judgment on any of it.
 
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silasraven

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dude for the acid trip no,coming off lithium still. i feel it both ways when it comes to the hearing about the supressed memories and the worry caused the creating them, and the manic episode is also another thing. i feel like its either or or both its wierd
 
Nusky

Nusky

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sso said:
yes i was not saying that he definetly does not have repressed memories.

i was saying he might not.

and with no judgment on any of it.
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oh no I'm speaking from my personal experience, not about what you said. I don't mean to say that it did happen, I just think you should analyze what happened and if your brain is like 60% saying it happened then just go with that it happened. If you don't think it happened then just accept it and move on. This process can take a long time though
 
un named

un named

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this is probably going a bit far out there but i watched this show called ''test your brain''(was on nat geo or the discovery channel) or something but anyways they were saying we like movies so much that our brain some what thinks we are actually doing the event that we are seeing maybe you saw a movie while being quite young and your brain thinking it was a real event when looking back. our minds can play some awful tricks sometimes.
 
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