Has Anyone Had Dissociative Fugue Or Amnesia From Adult Trauma? Trying To Process This.

[Hashi]

This is in the past, and I'm trying to work through what it has meant for me.

I seem to have had dissociative fugue following the trauma when I was 20. This is the view of a psychiatrist I saw some years later and it's consistent with hospital records from the time. And it makes sense. I regained my identity, but then remembered nothing about the trauma. It was only four years ago that I began to recover memories.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had dissociative fugue or selective amnesia of adult trauma? I'd really like to know how other people have experienced this, if willing to share.

I realise maybe no-one will respond but I thought I'd ask.

 

[maddog]

Hashi, I experienced a trauma when I was 29 and have only partial memory of the incident itself, and fragmented and incomplete memory of the days and weeks that followed the incident. To date, I have not recovered any of the missing memory from that time. Not sure if this is what you mean, or if this info is of any use to you at all, but for what it's worth, that's my experience. I find these memory blanks to be extremely distressing and the fear that they may never be filled is currently of greater fear to me than the fear that I might one day remember.

Maddog

 

[Justmehere]

Yes this has very much happened for me in relation to adult trauma - both the fugue and amnesia.

 

[open eyes]

I've never had fugue but I've definitely had dissociative amnesia. As a child I was sexually abused, & I was sexually assaulted at the age of 13. All of the memories of those incidents were completely wiped from my memory until about a year & a half ago, when they slowly started coming back. Even today the memories are still in fragments; some parts being so vivid I can still feel it, & there are still pieces I don't recall.