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⌈ Secret Post #3309 ⌋

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Re: Repressed memories

[(Anonymous)]

TW- Sexual Assault Mention

I actually did roughly a year going through research on this and most evidence points to recovered memories being only a tiny bit reliable. Quite often they're the result of accidental coaching, people (usually a therapist that has already decided that there is a repressed memory and what that repressed memory is about- usually sexual abuse) or getting confused. For example, sometimes information heard after the incident can then muddle the memory of the incident (an experiment by the Doctor really prominent in this field, Dr Elizabeth something I think, showed that people remembered the speed of a car and resulting violence very differently when using the words collided, smashed, etc). There was also a case where a woman recovered a memory of her father sexually assaulting her, but the timeline was all off so everyone though it was fake. Turns out she had actually walked in on her father having (I think consensual, that or it wasn't specified) sex with an underage girl. So one presumably traumatising event was altered into another when the memory was recovered.

TL;DR: As far as I'm aware, there has never been a completely accurate recovered memory. Memory itself is very faulty, and supposed recovered memories are even more likely to have discrepancies. Fact checking and source monitoring (keeping track of what information came from the event itself and what came from secondary sources) are probably the best safeguards to limit alteration.