Ewwwww

[joreth]

Please, somebody wake me up and convince me that I don't really live in a world where people who think like this really exist! 

Taken from http://www.okcupid.com/journal?pid=16311410781763656256&tuid=1705724830986337667#16260375995467196684 :

  














 

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[leora.livejournal.com]

Okay, reading the OkC thread, I'm just sad. The guy's history is apparently that he had "repressed memories" of abuse that came out decades later. Which means that the odds are really good he was the victim of bad psychologists/therapists himself.

In the absence of a damn good cause for memories not being accessible, odds are good that any repressed memories are actually implanted memories. Implanting memories has been shown to be pretty easy. And he had an emotional motive. Whereas traumatic experiences almost never lead to repressed memories. They often lead to memories that haunt the person and that the person can't stop reliving, but not generally to repression.

But once you have implanted memories, they feel and act as real as any other memory. You have the experience.

I wish psych people would be more careful and responsible. It really hurts me to have people harming others like this.