recovered memory syndrome

recovered memory syndrome

Recovered memory syndrome
Recovered memory syndrome is the ability of people that after suffering an intense trauma in their life, their mind try to hide it and after years of living a normal life these memories resurface again. These ways to repress bad memories are defenses mechanisms in people’s mind, which it will cause in some cases amnesia after the person has experienced a traumatic moment in his life, for example being at war or childhood sexual abuse. This repressed memory helps the individuals function normally for some time by hiding the pain in their unconscious mind. Society started to take notice of this way to repressed memories, when soldiers start showing signs of PSTD (post traumatic stress disorder), their traumas of the war created a cloud in their minds to cover horrible scenarios of death and blood. I believe that in childhood sexual abuse, children repressed these memories and in some more severe cases they suffer from amnesia when they want to recall those years of abuse. Our memory works all the time to accomplish normal tasks that rule our lives, but children’s memory are still in a learning process and it can be control easily, at the same time it is fragile and immature, this is the reason that psychiatrics and scientist have many theories and doubts about these repressed memories and the time in which start to reappear in the victims mind. These traumas in children that cause to completely forget the memory, it is because the perpetrator is an immediate relative, like a parent. This is called betrayal trauma theory and suggests psychogenic amnesia as an adaptive response that functions not so much to reduce immediate suffering, but to promote long-term survival by not rupturing attachment to a figure vital to development (Middleton, Cromer & Freyd, 2005, pg. 229).
Now these memories are recovered pieces by pieces during the child’s maturity into adulthood, sometimes this recalling happens when the person’s mind it is triggered...