Do you ever worry that you have repressed memories?

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I just had a worrying thought that perhaps I've suppressed some traumatic memories from my childhood. There are big chunks that I know I've not been able to remember since my very early teens.

I've had this thought before but never has it been quite so worrying. Not sure why. Has anyone else had this? Is it normal?
 
jp_bl_68 said:
I just had a worrying thought that perhaps I've suppressed some traumatic memories from my childhood. There are big chunks that I know I've not been able to remember since my very early teens.

I've had this thought before but never has it been quite so worrying. Not sure why. Has anyone else had this? Is it normal?
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Is there something that makes you think those chunks are necessarily traumatic?
 
i have a horrible nagging sensation that i may have worked in the purple shirt place once upon a time(perhaps in a previous life)
 
I can't remember large chunks of being young, I suspect that it would be impossible to remember your entire life and since most days are essentially the same they get forgotten.
 
I expect I have many considering my rather volatile childhood, I don't dwell on it at all, and frankly they are most likely better off staying repressed.

I have the odd memory here and there, but I remember very little before I was 14. I have a non existent relationship with my Mother and a strained one with my Father, neither really bother me that much as I have a family of my own.
 
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Doohickey said:
Is there something that makes you think those chunks are necessarily traumatic?
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Without wanting to go into too much detail, I'm what you would call "weird". I know most people would describe themselves that way from time to time but if you were to meet me or if you knew more about me you'd probably agree. I vaguely remember earlier parts of my childhood when I was completely different but something changed drastically around the time I turned eleven.

alexhull24 said:
Got any weird uncles the family doesn't talk to any more?
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All of them :eek: :p

No weird ones, I don't think, but I've not seen my extended family since I was twelve.



I'm probably just being paranoid, I suppose.
 
Turning 11 with me I also became different.

Secondary school! A different bread of animal.

Can make you a person go from being out going and confident to like you are a piece of dirt.
 
What's your age jp_bl_68?

Not that it matters what age you are.. if you are feeling these things then it doesn't matter.

Do you suffer from anxiety?
 
Nitefly said:
No. I consider myself to have a fairly normal upbringing (although I'm not entirely sure that's common).

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What's normal?

My childhood may have been a nightmare to me now as I look back on it, but at the time aside from the violence I thought it was normal.

Now I am older I realise that it was not. The only thing you can do is not to become the same. I am nothing like either of Parents in either attitude or temperament.

I basically give my family what I did not have myself, and in doing so I finally have that family that I did not have when I was a child.
 
Don't remember a great deal of my childhood, apart from "it wasn't all that childhoodish but I was definitely a kid".

Repressed memories, probably, but nothing big. Life's yet to give me a big screwover. Just waiting for it to happen :P
 
2StepSteve said:
Anxiety can make you think all kinds of things and trick you into thinking about wild thoughts, it might be the cause of your current thoughts.

Have you seen your GP about the anxiety?
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Yes, I'm on some medication for it (I actually saw him about it this morning) and it seems to be helping. Being tired tends to let those wild thoughts creep back in.

That's probably all it is but it'd be nice if I could be 100% sure.
 
I don't remember much from before I was about 14-15 did have a few events that could have caused it according to family but I honestly cant remember it. Possibly a good thing the shrinks I have seen always touch on it.
 
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