Multiple Personality Disorder - amazing stories - Part 2/5

Extraordinary people - Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as MPD

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• Sybil

[Waltham1892]

@minespinkandfluffy

I can't find my glasses. That does not mean I repressed the memory of my glasses, it means I can’t access the cues to recall where I put them.

I can't forget my ex-wife, and if she wasn't emotionally traumatic NOTHING is...

[Waltham1892]

@MrsSarb

Individuals in traffic accidents often can not recall the accident. This is due to trauma to the temporal lobes causing an interruption of memory going from short-term to long-term storage.

There is no analog for emotional trauma and there is evidence that emotional trauma leads to very strong memories called “flash bulb memories."

I would be very leery of “assisted recovery” of memories from after the age of 3.

[MrsSarb]

@Waltham1892 Anecdotal is pretty convincing when you are the person who has personally experienced it. I do not know the biological basis of traumatic amnesia. I simply know that it does happen because I have experienced it. I agree that memory is highly fallible and I do not know whether multiple personalities are real or not. I've also never tried to "recover" my memories. I see no need for that. I just know that my mind "went blank" due to the trauma I experienced.

[minespinkandfluffy]

@Waltham1892 I can ... I dout I will even remember that I read this on this video

[Waltham1892]

@MrsSarb

You are right, it isn't that simple.

In fact, its impossible.

Memories can be lost due to a lack of recall cues, limited by perception, and incorrectly recalled due to antrograde and retrograde interference. They can even, as Cognitive Psychologists have proven, be created from whole cloth.

However, memory is highly fallible and there is no evidence, other than anecdotal, that memory can be "repressed" or "recovered."

Time to put the myths out to pasture.

[MrsSarb]

@Waltham1892 I wish it were that simple.

[Waltham1892]

@MrsSarb

I want you to picture a blue elephant in your mind.

Now I want you to forget it, forever.

I want you to be able to see a blue elephant, think of blue elephants, and never remember this conversation took place.

Do you think you can do that?

[MrsSarb]

@Waltham1892 Well I'm sorry to tell you this, but you are just wrong. I have repressed memories. I remember everything up until a specific point. It is documented and the person who injured me went to prison so it's not something that I've just concocted out of nothing. There is a point where the memories just flat out stop. I also experienced it during a severe physical illness. I've also been told by doctors it is normal and fairly common.

[purpledeath1908]

She needs a young priest and old priest

[Waltham1892]

@MrsSarb

You are talking two different things.

Can people dissociate? Yes, its a common experience.

Can people have no memory of traumatic events? No, half the purpose of memory is to recall traumatic events so that we can avoid them. Memory provides an evolutionary advantage.

However; memory is very malleable. It can be lost, altered and tainted by past or current experience.

You also can not repress memory; in order to do that you have to remember what you want to forget.