Were you guys aware of most people thinking repressed memories are a sham?

Ok, part of this has to do with the satanic panic. I'm not saying repressed memories don't exist, they absolutely do, but that particular part of history made a lot of people associate repressed memories with fake science.

And you are right mental health awareness is atrocious. I just happen to know why that particular misconception exists, and thought I could share because I like learning and sharing what I know.

Also, autistic and not good at tone, so please know, this is literally just sharing an interesting nugget of info, not meant to be invalidating.

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Because science does not back repressed memories. I know I know. People will come with pitchforks. Sometimes child did not feel situation traumatic and later in life it was seen as traumatic and in comes back. That can happen. And memory is not a video - it can be accurate but not always accurate to 100%. Memory does not work like a film. That’s why when therapists ask about the most earlier childhood memory they focus on feeling rather then memory it self as it’s very high chance the memory is not accurate but feeling it relies is. Pseudo memories do exist. And they can be implanted by person subconsciously or by therapy. This is scientifically proven fact. Our mind is wonderful and it can create narrative form few scraps which might not be accurate representation of what happened. So a lot of times it’s more important to focus on feelings rather than facts in memory itself. So in general I do not believe focusing on memory itself is very reliable but focusing on your emotions in that memory is. Because those are something that probably was true. Even if memory itself was altered by many different things and cannot be considered as the fact that that happened with 100% accuracy. I have had dreams which later I discover memory as my brain thinking that was true although I for a fact know - that was just very very realistic dream and that never happened and nothing supports irl. Google regarding memory reliableness if you want to get into that topic.