Childhood Opinions...is it possible to present indicators of trauma from years of therapy?

[digger]

You are saying that you went into therapy initially though because of sexual abuse?

I was in therapy for sexual abuse

Was this suspected abuse or abuse that someone knew for certain had happened? Who put you in therapy at that age?

 

[Muttly]

I understand how you can wonder such things. I have huge holes in my memory. It bothers me. Sometimes it bothers me more and sometimes less. I also look for other explanations for my issues, other than abuse. I was actually thinking of emailing my T, and asking her if it's possible I made the whole thing up.

So let's try it this way. What if you weren't abused. What if the therapy you had made you think you were abused? How would that change your current situation? Would that fit together as a story of your past?

 

[EveHarrington]

If you have body memories and physical automatic reactions-------therapy cannot cause those reactions in you, i.e. Flashbacks/emotional flashbacks during sex.

 

[PointlessExistence]

Go to the person who put you in therapy and ask him/her for more info.

 

[The Albatross]

Yeah, I was askin' the OP thanks.

 

[PointlessExistence]

Albatross, are you speaking to me? If so, I have no idea what you mean.

 

[The Albatross]

No. I wasn't. Guess that should have been @digger but since there's no indication the OP has even been back to the thread it's moot.

 

[digger]

Guess that should have been @digger

I was also addressing the OP directly :confused: no reference to your post at all

 

[Deleted member 8714]

I was in therapy for sexual abuse, but I don't remember any of it.

My stepson was in therapy at a young age too. He doesn't remember any of the therapy. He was dissociative and had DID at the time of therapy. He's now in his mid-thirties and still has no memory of therapy.

It's not uncommon to not remember, especially if you were 2-4 yrs old.

I actually had a detailed account of where I was abused and what I witnessed at three years old. A detective I called was shocked to find, after an investigation, exactly what I described to him. And I had DID/PTSD after it happened (age 3) and when I described the details later at age 35.