I can't remember anything that happened in my entire third and fourth grade. I also found out that all photos during those times are missing. i don't know if i burned them. I don't think my parents did.
i am scared to know what happened and why i burried it deep.
how will i remember? hypnosis?
If you ever find the answer to that question, let me know.
"Child Trauma Amnesia or known as Psychogenic Amnesia is clearly a defense mechanism and a survival method," said
Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., director of the Psychosocial Stress Research Program, Florida State University at Tallahassee. "In most cases, people begin to process the traumatic experience immediately by asking: What happened? Why did it happen? Why did I act the way I did? In attempting to answer these questions", said Dr. Figley in a telephone interview, "their findings become so painful that they very gradually and selectively begin to forget." The memory loss serves as a means of getting people through the long crisis period following the trauma. "It is much better to delay the full realization of what you/they are attempting to cope with until you/they are in a better position to deal with it."
I have no idea if anything happened to you or if it's just that you simply don't remember. I wish I knew how to help you remember but I don't. I have tried for many years to remember some things.
I hope you can someday remember and what you remember brings comfort and not sorrow.
