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Repressed Memories: Are They Real?
Some say they are not.
By now, most of my readers out there have heard of repressed memories and perhaps false memories. Writing about both is the only way to clear your mind and the minds of many others of the worry that you may be making it all up because you have been told the things you remember happening never did.
This piece is meant to be educational weaving together information about false and repressed memory and how it is involved in dissociative identity disorder. It is important for you to remember that no one’s memories of the past are 100% correct.
Childhood Sexual Abuse
While there are a seemingly plethora of ways to abuse and neglect a child, the one this author knows best is childhood sexual abuse as a survivor of it.
Childhood sexual abuse is any interaction between an adult and a child where the child is used for pleasure by the perpetrator. Sexual abuse includes both non-touching and touching behaviors.
Non-touching sexual abuse occurs when the perpetrator tries to see the child’s nakedness or exposes the child to pornography. Touching sexual abuse is just as it sounds and includes fondling, the perpetrator trying and often succeeding in touching inappropriately any part of the child’s body. Unfortunately…
