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Memory
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[The] Betrayal trauma theory suggests that psychogenic amnesia
is an adaptive response to childhood abuse. When a parent or other
powerful figure violates a fundamental ethic of human relationships,
victims may need to remain unaware of the trauma not to reduce suffering
but rather to promote survival. Amnesia enables the child to maintain
an attachment with a figure vital to survival, development, and
thriving. (E. Sue Blume, Secret Survivors).
There are several independent surveys and studies regarding the
prevalence of sexual abuse and incest survivors who do not remember
their abuse for varied periods of time. In a clinical sample of
incest survivors conducted by J. Herman and E. Schatzow in the late
1980s, 28 percent reported severe memory deficits. Sixty-four percent
reported some degree of amnesia. In a 1994 national sample of psychologists,
conducted by S. Feldman-Summers and K. Pope, 23.9 percent reported
childhood abuse. Of the psychologists who recounted abuse, 40 percent
reported some period of time when victims forgot some or all of
the abuse. In a prospective study of women's memories of child sexual
abuse conducted by L. Williams in 1994, 38 percent of the women
studied did not recall sexual abuse that had been reported and documented
in a hospital emergency room 17 years earlier. Women who were younger
at the time of the abuse were more likely to have no recall of the
abuse. In a survey conducted by E. Loftus, S. Polonsky and M. Fullilove
in 1994, 54 percent of the 105 women in an out-patient treatment
for substance abuse reported themselves as victims of past sexual
abuse; nineteen percent reported they forgot the abuse over time,
but the memory returned later. In 1993, J. Briere and J. Conte conducted
a self-report survey for abuse in adults molested as children. This
self-report survey revealed 59 percent of 450 women and men in treatment
for sexual abuse at some time before age 18 had forgotten the sexual
abuse.
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When you know that what you're doing is right, nothing will be able to stop you. When you are absolutely convinced of the true value of your efforts, you'll have the courage and the persistence to see them through. To believe in what you're doing is not just important. It is everything.
Anything less cannot possibly succeed. For any accomplishments you reach while living a lie will ultimately be of no value.
It is not always easy to live true to your highest values, true to your authentic self, true to what you know is right. Yet it is always your best choice.
When you deny what you know is right in order to follow the expediency of the moment, the benefits you gain are trivial and fleeting. Choose instead to live each moment true to the highest values you know.
Then, who you become will be the fulfillment of who you truly are. Why would you ever want to be anything less? —Ralph Marston
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