Have you ever recovered a Repressed Memory?
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How is that repressed memory?. You just seem to have "forgotten" engaging in a conversation, unless it was a particularly disturbing conversation that your brain has tried to forget it's not "repressed" in anyway. You just have bad memory.
Thats not repressed, you forgot it.
Repressing is your brain hiding some fucked up shit from you.
(i think)
Repressing is your brain hiding some fucked up shit from you.
(i think)
Repressing memories usually means that your brain tries to suppress very bad moments in your life because otherwise you can't handle it psychologically. I think you've just randomly remembered something from your past, it happens from time to time.
You people are telling him that he simply forgot, and that a repressed member is "your brain tries to suppress very bad moments in your life because otherwise you can't handle it psychologically".
But, he said he remembered conversations with a girl, perhaps those conversations went badly for him. Embarrassingly badly. Traumatic experience and scarred for life sort of bad.
But yeah, more likely, just random shit he forgot.
But, he said he remembered conversations with a girl, perhaps those conversations went badly for him. Embarrassingly badly. Traumatic experience and scarred for life sort of bad.
But yeah, more likely, just random shit he forgot.
Yeah, but I have problems. BIG problems. Suicidal problems... However my brain is tricky; the repression was a first line of defense followed by making me ridiculusly smart(I'm quite a narcissist these days, but hey, it keeps me from killing myself)
I can't remember anything before like, age 13. Not sure if that's the doing of memory repression or alcohol.
Yes, I have, assuming you're speaking of actually repressed memories, not stuff you simply stopped thinking about.
No, I don't want to talk about them.
No, I don't want to talk about them.
Nope. If I have any repressed memories then I don't know about them because *gasp* they're repressed. Haven't uncovered any either. I used to be a choirboy as a wee lad, but it's okay because our choirmaster was more interested in eloping with a 16 year old girl than the wee lads under his care. Left his wife and kid too.
You spelled "defense" wrong, just to point out.Angerwing said:
Secondly, your last sentence makes little sense, and doesn't actually describe repression. It's been mentioned several times above, that the basic idea is one undergoes something so traumatic that the only way the mind can deal is by locking it away so that your conscious mind can't retrieve it. It's why hypnotism is supposed to be so effective in bringing such memories to the surface.
That being said, repression is an incredibly rare psychological event. So rare, in fact, that many of the people who believe themselves to have repressed memories, do not. They end up surfacing a bad dream or fantasy that they in turn believe is an actual memory. So unreliable is the idea of an actual repressed memory, that when used in a legal setting, it almost never hold up as valid testimony.
I believe I repressed a memory where I molested myself. It was devastating.
Dictionary.com disagrees with your assessment. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/defence] Both are correct. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/defense] Using a -ce is most common in Real English whereas a -se is American Englishdwightsteel said:
I do have a bit of a blank spot around the end of 2004. Always wondered what...
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...oh dear.
Fuck.
The badgers.
SHIT.
FUCK.
THE BADGERS! THE BADGERS! NOOOOOOOO!!
