Reply #204: Educate yourself about trauma,please

[undergroundpanther]

`1990's science,from the days of SRA, of Dr Laura,FMSF and The Rind report has been discredited by new imformation and science on trauma..


In dealing with survivors of trauma, those involved have split into two mutually suspicious and polarized camps. Trying to make up for years of neglect of traumatized clients, some clinicians have abandoned neutrality to believe all "memories." At the other extreme, members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation have blamed therapists for planting memories of abuse in the minds of vulnerable clients. Neither side understands how the brain stores memory.

The aftereffects of trauma has a signature.Science has found physical evidence.Certain behaviors and brain injuries are trauma induced.,like elevated cortisol levels in the blood and hypervilagance. It is psychiatric injury.
http://www.asca.org.au/childabuse/ca_traumaaffectsbrain.html
http://www.trauma-pages.com/trauma.php#SYMP
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/traumaeffects.html


Memories from horrible events can overwhelm the normal brain functions and the regular consciousness.Sometimes for quite a while.The victim feeling the distress of what happens tries to suppress it to get on with life. Sometimes that works for awhile. But triggers will force it back into awareness. Trauma literally burns the brain synapses.
Here is some photos of the damage
http://www.lawandpsychiatry.com/html/hippocampus.htm

When I used to cut my arms up,I did not feel the pain of it at all,but I was there slicing myself open to the muscle layers..how was I able to do that? My emotional pain was greater than physical pain and I was REGULATING my consciousness and the pain overwhelming it from a trigger,that triggered a memory of some event in my memory that hurt me worse than a gash.Cutting that way was to prevent a total breakdown or save myself from suicide a distraction and to "anchor" myself so I would know feel my own reality.

Trauma memories sometimes get stored in a different part of the brain than regular memories do.Trauma memories are put in the other parts of the brain depending on age when it happened or the nature of what happened.Sometimes the part of the brain where the memory is is not easily accessible to the wakeful conscious mind or available in it's entirety.
Because the brain at that time was is overwhelmed by what happened,memories of the event are activated by triggers so much they have symptoms. Denial and pain also inhibits the memories from being examined.

http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/Neuroarcheology.asp

That confusion does not mean traumatic events did not occur.

This is true for me..And I got Complex PSTD and Dissociation..
People who have been traumatized and have had these neuro-degenerative changes to the brain do not respond to pressure the way other people do. Under pressure they may feel and act as if they are being traumatized all over again. These traumatically created "emotional memories are forever," (van der Kolk, 1995, p.256) and new information or pressures are processed through that filter.

So.. Based in my experiences and with my experiences with a bad therapist and with a caring one..Trauma does effect you sometimes FOR LIFE.

The false memory syndrome group Is full of CRAP.

Research conducted over more than 100 years shows that the mind can avoid conscious narrative or visual recall of traumatic information and recover it years later. Several recent publications provide good overviews of the scientific support for recovered memories of sexual abuse survivors./7/

In studies dating back to the 19th century, French philosopher and psychologist Pierre Janet found evidence that victims of trauma experienced amnesia for some or all aspects of the trauma./8/ According to Janet, traumatic memories consist of images, sensations, and emotional and behavioral states. This is different from narrative memory-what laypeople commonly refer to as memory-otherwise known as symbolic or explicit memory.
Read more..http://www.smith-lawfirm.com/Murphy_Memory_Article.html


The FMSF is full of self serving perpetrators and has nambla members on their boards, that that are just rationalizing their"rights" to abuse people and to undermine survivors from seeing justice. FMSF supported crap claiming pedophilia was"healthy" called the Rind report.The rind report was discredited.It was a cooked book bull shit defending pedophiles using Freud's old denial,when he backtracked once he realized some of his patients were telling a truth he didn't want to hear.
http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/trauma/neuropsy.htm
So he called it all"fantasies" and every perpetrator who seeks to discredit survivors latches onto that betrayal Freud did because they don't want to be held accountable,a victim's memory of what they did and the fear they will tell is one way perpetrators crimes do haunt them,and to deny that motive in abusive people is foolish..

But unless you KNOW the history of the false memory hoax you wouldn't know it was a hoax.
There is no such thing as induced memories.Manipulation yes, but a manipulated person can be convinced to lie yes, but they are not motivated by lying about memories.They are lying because the therapists are meeting an unmet psychological need of theirs(like attention) and exploiting it to discredit other victims of abuse. A bad therapist is one of the most disgusting things on this earth.Just because some patient got caught in a manipulation dance with an asshole therapist does not erase the scares of trauma IF there are scars and any therapist worth their salt should know what to look for to determine this.

Everyone trances. Everyone goes into altered states,and repression of memories is NORMAL in human beings.Do you remember EVERY SINGLE MOMENT of everyday ?
No,you don't.Where did the memory of bored time,or monotonous times, or times where you were doing something and the hours slipped away, go to? By gosh it got repressed.
That is normal memory repression.

Trauma is a entirely different thing,those memories are not forgotten they are inaccessible to waking consciousness because of what part of the brain stores memories of a very emotionally charged and painful nature.And defensive asshole perps,who do their damnedest to make people they victimize FORGET it and deny it, demanding proof,can force the process of integration so clients to please others demands force their memories to fit into a scheme that may not be accurate.
There are asshole people with personal and political interests in NOT letting the client remember an event.These people need to shut the fuck up and stay out of the recovery process.

The FMSF is crap. They are discredited charlatans.
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/mindnet/mn156a.htm