False Memory Syndrome

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he or she may be
effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life.”
Jo hn F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D.

There are many theorys that try to explain how memory works, still
we are not sure that's how memory works. One of the most amazing theorys of
how memory works, is the one which says that every experience a person has
had is 'recorded' in memory and some of these memories are of a traumatic
event that is too terrible to want to remember. Then traumatic memories are
put away in the sub conscious mind, i.e. repressed, and are remembered in
when you grow up and some event brings it back from the unconscious.This
causes physical, and mental disorders in a person.

Some persons have tried to explain their pain even on things like
cancer, as coming from repressed memories. Scientists have studied related
wonders like people with hands that bleed in some religious settings.
Apparently some people, called stigmatics, are not showing unconscious
memories of being ...

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but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to
you, it probably did. When a person can not remember his or her childhood
or have very blurry memories, incest must always be considered as a
possibility. If you have any suspicion at all, if you have any memory, no
matter how vague, it probably really happened. It is far more likely that
you are blocking the memories, denying it happened'.

There have been many symptoms suggested as the ones that show that
there was of past abuse. These symptoms range from headaches to irritable
bowls. In fact, one psychologist of a list of over 900 different symptoms
that had been presented as proof of an of abuse. When he reviewed the ...

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