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Help Seeking Denial - continued

arfie
arfie
The original post: http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Post-Traumatic_Stress_Disorder/forum/21378769-helpseeking-denial

The worst part of my memory recovery work is the memories that I can neither confirm nor deny. This appears to be one. I am still clueless where I got this phrase from.

Oh well. As my most effective therapist put it, "Even normal, undamaged memories are less than perfect. All any of can really do is our honest best with what is available to us."

Don't know where I got it from, but I still think it effectively describes the 15 years between my first official dx (Trauma Induced Amnesia) and the decision to get with a program and trust the process.

Thoughts? Reality checks?
Muskoka007
Muskoka007
I agree with your therapist " even normal., undamaged... My therapist once said a similar concept to me as I struggled with another fuzzy memory. I think we have to consider our age too when the memory was first processed. Especially if, like you and I were young. I was just over one year old

I am noticing some amnesia too but only recently. I think that I adapted without knowing it....sounds strange but true. I don't really have a barometer of normal and it is clarion to me that it is also an advantage, like being born blind

good post Arfie, thank you it gave me something to think about, in a good way
arfie
arfie
Oddly enough, my memory is, in verified fact, improving with age. So far, anyway. Memory blocks big and strong enough to block out an entire childhood damage memory functions across the board. The RAM and cache can't work right without access to the hard drive.

As I have healed the amnesia, all my memory functions have healed with it. I am still using the memory exercises which facilitated the healing. This post, actually, is one of those exercises.

Leave it to me to run the polar opposite of, "Normal."
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
it is such good news that we can not only create new neural pathways by pressing to use them; by needing them, creating reasons for them to exist, so they get built - astonishing but it is true, not only this, we can shrink the negative ones, the ones we had been using, the practiced old, tried and true negative ones by insisting on not using them. ie: changing our use of words, the way we say things or positive self talk - that sort of thing

they have proven it works - maybe they did this years and years ago and are onto even better things by now - but I am finding this out, possibly again : ) I forget real fast...
this is good, I like reasons to think. I did not used to. mostly because I couldnt' think, even when I wanted to. it was so hard to stay on one thought that long...
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