How do people know if they have repressed memories?
Well, a lot of people are sexually abused, too… not to mention abused physically and emotionally… which can all cause depression “and stuff.” But she does offer a particularly definitive statement about memory loss: “Sometimes there are clear time losses or memory blanks that indicate the possiblity of sexual abuse. If you remember almost nothing or very little of your childhood, or if you cannot remember a period of time such as between the ages of ten and fourteen, you have repressed memories. People do not block out years of their lives for some small trauma, or because of a sense of general unhappiness. Time is lost only for very painful reasons. “Another form of memory loss is blocking a significant person out of your life. Molly, for example, has no memories of her grandfather, who lived next door to her family until his death when she was five. She does remember her grandmother, though, as well as many significant and insignificant incidents from her preschool years. This in
