News Ptsd Can Develop Even Without Memory Of The Trauma, Study Concludes

[MyPTSD]

There are many forms of memory and only some of these may be critical for the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), reports a new study. The findings suggest that even with no explicit memory of an early childhood trauma, symptoms of PTSD can still develop in adulthood.

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[NovemberStar]

Makes sense to me - it's only through months of flashbacks I am learning the true impact of some of my biggest traumas. I had memories if many things that happened to me, but it's the ones I cannot remember that are in the flashbacks and that cause me the most pain and struggles.

 

[Underdog]

WOW! Yup, seems to be on target for me at least. I'm currently being told what is happening is not only a known nearly life-long trauma ending with an extreme work environment that finally brought me to my knees, but also developmental since I was adopted and my mother was experiencing a lot of things as I was in the womb (drug usage ending with jail time which is where I was born then separated from her). I've found it odd that I don't have flashbacks to any of my life events involving people being hurt or killed, nor to being a young child... Only to the last job which I almost can't ever stop thinking about 2 years later (sometimes to the point that I am completely debilitated). What is being proposed here seems to make sense for my scenario.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

The more studies I read, the more I realize that PTSD research is pretty much still in the dark ages.

 

[kagamine]

I think when we're young the way we remember is so different to our adult/adolescent memory that it makes sense we wouldn't have explicit memory of our earliest trauma, and yet it's still been shown time and again that people have trauma in early childhood fare the worst.

I think even the flashbacks from that age I have at least are just more sensory based. I feel things happening to me, and I remember emotions that don't have a name or context. And that's just what I do remember. I rarely see a scene or hear voices. I have a lot of olfactory triggers too, but those mostly come from older childhood and adolescence.

 

[anthony]

@Solara, you hit the nail on the head. This is why I stopped reading so many studies years ago... and even this one, has really regurgitated the same outcome as previous studies, confirming nothing new and interesting in the world of PTSD other than giving authority to the overall subject by adding another confirmatory outcome.

 

[NovemberStar]

What really needs to happen is research and / or personal experiences of PTSD written by those who have been through it themselves. Annoys me no end when the "professionals" publish all these articles and "research" and "theories" like they really believe they are "experts" on PTSD - how can anyone who hasn't gone through it themselves TRULY know what they are talking about when it comes to generalising PTSD experiences?

I think that is one of the issues - there are so many variants - probably more "differences" between how two people with PTSD, experience PTSD, than there are of similarities yet the 'experts' seem intent on creating one big box to lump us all in together.

 

[anthony]

yet the 'experts' seem intent on creating one big box to lump us all in together

Welcome to science... it doesn't like variables, it only likes a statistical outcome by lumping as much as possible together. Academics is all science and statistics, no real and actuals.

This is why I have stated for years, the majority of studies I have read are biased from the beginning. Why? Because when you go looking for only a specific attribute whilst measuring a human being, you immediately discard other aspects that influence that both positively and negatively, solely because that is not what you're wanting to measure. When you have concluded an outcome result, and the only difference is that it could be positive or negative, doesn't leave much room for realistic data actually present during a study.

This is also why most studies refuse to use severe and complex trauma individuals, because they will taint their desired results creating incalculable's that they want to limit from the get go.

Studies are biased the moment they go looking for a specific element. I have read some excellent studies, where they simply started measuring peoples responses and the criteria and their conclusions were discovered during the study, thus results drawn and an outcome that was never specifically sought, either found or not found.