ilovexnerdsx
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i'm dealing with an intense issue right now and i know specktra is overwhelmed with intelligence and resourcefulness. i'm not so much looking for sympathy right now, but a more scientific point of view.
i've always dealt with pretty severe depression (which i am finally over) and as a result i've been going to therapy for years and years, though now i only go for meds management. i've never really been close to my brother and i know when i was little he used to hit me some. almost right after i started going to a new psychiatrist, i started having dreams about my brother raping me.
for the longest time it's been ripping my family apart. when i told my sister i was having the dreams, but wasn't sure about them, she said she "wouldn't put it past him."
i talked to my therapist about it and it seemed to make a whole lot of sense.
my mother has been doing a lot of research though, and it turns out that MANY people have been convinced that they had been abused once it had been suggested they were, even if they weren't. according to a lot of research, repressed memories aren't even possible.
so now i am starting to doubt that it had ever happened.
but i was wondering if anyone had any information that could help me sort through this, more scientifically. research i could read over? repressed memories that turned out to definitely be true, or false?
my brother lives on the other side of the country and does not know that any of this has been going on.
i've always dealt with pretty severe depression (which i am finally over) and as a result i've been going to therapy for years and years, though now i only go for meds management. i've never really been close to my brother and i know when i was little he used to hit me some. almost right after i started going to a new psychiatrist, i started having dreams about my brother raping me.
for the longest time it's been ripping my family apart. when i told my sister i was having the dreams, but wasn't sure about them, she said she "wouldn't put it past him."
i talked to my therapist about it and it seemed to make a whole lot of sense.
my mother has been doing a lot of research though, and it turns out that MANY people have been convinced that they had been abused once it had been suggested they were, even if they weren't. according to a lot of research, repressed memories aren't even possible.
so now i am starting to doubt that it had ever happened.
but i was wondering if anyone had any information that could help me sort through this, more scientifically. research i could read over? repressed memories that turned out to definitely be true, or false?
my brother lives on the other side of the country and does not know that any of this has been going on.