jaylar
There are times in life when you have to understand that you can not shed any light into the darkness. When a person harbours False Memories, there is no way to extradite them.
Yes, accidentally, one might say something, not to the victim but another, which breaks through the barriers. For there are barriers. The Victim maintains his/her darkness with every drop of blood.
So vested in maintaining their false memories they will ‘reboot’ when led to the reality that what they so strongly believe did not happen.
Encountering someone who harbours these false memories one keeps trying to free them from their bonds, and invariably fails.
That is the most traumatic part; having to realise that no matter what you say, what proof you bring, the Victim will cling to his/her chains.
Some of us know the memories are false though, but prefer that version of them, just to make a good story better.
This is embellishment, rather than outright falseness.
It is not embellishment… it’s not trying to make the story better, (this article is the first in a series of 22 on the topic) it is trying to convince yourself…. there was a case
https://virily.com/beauty-health/dealing-with-false-memory-14/amp/
I know that I cannot remember all of the exact details of some events in my life, so rather than tell something slightly untrue, I will often write the incident up as a fiction piece here, adding considerably to the story, to make it a better read.
I do it for a reason though, not due to a metal aberration of believing false memories.
read “mental” not “metal”.
Total difference between the details and fantasy.
You can confuse details but when the event didn’t happen or you were not there, or the person you claim abused you had been dead a few years..
Yes, I see your point.
False Memories are created by outsiders. A therapist for example assumes X was abused as a child and through a mix of hypnotism and psychotropic drugs brings her to recall her brother raping her. And that memory will be there, and even proving her brother died a year before the event is almost impossible to reconcile.
Yes, this is a terrible misdirection of truth, but in some cases, I guess, the abuse has really happened, so we shouldn’t sweep these cases away without proper investigation too.
I think sometimes, the child might have even fantasised about this in her own mind, even though it never happened, but when the psychologist latches onto this fantasy, he brings it into reality, and convinces the cleint that it really happened, rather than it just being a (guilty – as in guilt felt after the event for even just having this fantasy) fantasy imaginative creation of the person at that time.
Many times the therapist attributes certain traits incorrectly to having been abused.
https://virily.com/science-nature/dealing-with-false-memory-7/
Maybe false memories can be considered part of growing old?
No. False Memories are not senality; these are a twisting of reality, either accomplished by a psycho-therapist or the mental imbalance. They may manifest in teenage, more often in one’s thirties and forties.
False memories are hard to deal with.
Part of the brain of the person knows they are false, the other part fights to establish them.