Suppressing memories

Have any of you suppressed any traumatic memories? (Of course knowing so because the memories came back)

I believe whole-heartedly that I may have blocked some things from my childhood out, especially since someone I grew up with came clean about some things. It's so complicated, and it's part of the reason I still struggle with depression.

It just hurts not knowing.

Yes i suppressed memories from my childhood. they first started coming back at 15 but there are still parts which are hazy and blank. a lot of people who go through traumatic events supress their memories. sometimes they return and sometimes they do not. but just because you can't remember it it doesn't mean you aren't affected by it. i have heard of people who go through life hating men, feeling scared, getting nightmares etc. and there is always the thought that they were abused they just don't remember it. Your body will remember when it is ready and feels that it's time

My dad used to beat me as a child and i remember that. Supressing such memories would make me a differnet person to whom i am now and i wouldnt want that. I think dealing with these memories has made me a betyter person. Im happy in the knowledge that that part of my life is behind me and i'll never be in a situation like that again

See... I have no idea why but I've become so terrified of men that I don't know and ones that look strange even if I know them. I'm paranoid of my surroundings esp when I'm out alone and I don't like to go anywhere alone. Also I keep having weird dreams of some type of abuse esp sexual abuse. I haven't told anyone yet. I don't know how they'll take it.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Yes....i supressed a memory of one of my friends older brothers doing everything to me except actually raping me when i was about.....5.....i think. i touched me everywhere and stuff. i only just remembered this at the beginning of last year. =(

Yes it could be quite probable that you were abused. it would be a good idea to tell someone though. when your ready. they will be able to help you deal with it and support you better then someone over the internet will.

*sigh* Yes, there's quite a few places in my childhood that I completely can't remember what happened and they continue on through most of my teen years so far =( Some of them I know what should have been going on then but I completely can't remember them and others i don't even want to try to remember because I think that I blacked them out for a reason =p

I also have a not of really bad strong fears that no one can explain and I've asked my mom, sister and others that should be able to tell me if their based in realty. I had a really hard time having anyone touch me at all in anyway for most of my life although I'm working on it and getting over it pretty good now thinks to having two ex bf's that wouldn't let me have problems touching and I almost panic if I'm standing in line at a store and the person behind me stands to close or someone starts walking behind me while I'm walking down the street =p Just weird things like that and the thing that bugs me is that no one remembers anything that would trigger such strong fears =p

Exactly! That's the same way I am. But everytime I mention that I feel something is wrong with me they think it's a joke so I don't really want to say anything. I just want to get rid of my anxiety and paranoia and forget about it.

I had suppressed the memory of when my mum and her partner had a fight and he hit her, we had the police at our house and everything... I remembered about it when one of my mates was telling me about how a friend of hers has a mother that was abused by his step-father ... it's weird u kno, it sorta came back in flashes really fast... The human mind is a strange and complex thing...

That's why I want to study it (the mind)... because I want to understand it a little better.

Oh ho yeah.....and I wish they had stayed that way. But in the end I guess it helps me understand my nightmares and such......but remember the torture and the brainwashing....the rape....I just wish it all was a nightmare.

*sigh* I know what you mean Becca =p Luckly my mom doesn't think I'm crazy though ^_^ I also have a REALLY hard time sleeping at night or being in my room on my own with the lights out and I'm trying to sleep =p I haven't had that many come back though, only really strong feelings and unexplainable fears that pop up all of a sudden without warning =p So not fun =p
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