From: anonasar@khijol.UUCP (Anonymous poster for alt.sexual.abuse.recovery)
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Subject: RE: memories invalidated
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:52:16 GMT

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anon-1280@twwells.com (Ode) says:

> ******** SPOILER ******
> 
> I thought long and hard. I'm still certain that the "Virginian"
> memory and the one with my mom are real, because they've stayed
> with me for all these years, even though years might go by where
> then. I'm secure there, which is good, or else I'd really be
> going crazy now!!! I am certain that I *was* sexually molested!
> 
> But the other ones, the ones that have only come in the last few
> weeks, I mistrust now. Though none of them came as a result of
> a "scenario" prompt like the one above, I just can't take them
> at face value anymore.
> 
> I suppose hypnosis will be the only way I can find out for sure
> what actually is a memory and what isn't. Geez, I don't know

Vickie,

I have been trained as hypnotist, I have been hypnotized by others and I 
have hypnotized others.  I think you may be expecting a little too much from 
hypnosis.  Hypnosis is a wonderful tool, but it is only a tool.  
In all I have seen I don't think you will get the certainty that you indicated
you were looking for from hypnosis by itself.  One thing I would ask
that you keep in mind is that the reason you cannot remember some things is
that the mind is trying to "protect" you from something that is not "good".
PLEASE BE CAREFUL if you are going to use ANY technique to "tear down" this 
protection, it could have undesirable side effects if it is not done with 
GREAT CARE.

If you want to know more let me know and I will email you some things you
may want to consider in evaluating hypnosis.

> what to think. Has this happened to anyone else? How did you
> separate the imagination from the reality? I never thought
> my imagination was all that "productive" so that's another
> reason this suprises me so much. Still, I know that the mind
> can conjure up anything at all. It can picture a green pickup
> truck parked on an orange picnik table, with a red ball stuck
> on the radio antenna. On Mars.
> 
> :-( help! I'm so confused :-(
> 
> 
> God, has everything I've written become null and void? :-(

I do not think that it has.  Memories like these come out in "stages" as
you are "ready" for them.

> If so, I *never* meant to mislead anyone. Everything I wrote
> was true to me at the time I wrote it.

I, for one, never believe that anyone (including you) ever intends to
mislead here.  The mind does not release its "protection" of these
events easily!

> Still, my life-long depressions aren't a figment of my imagination,
> something's going on and I have to find out what. That's why I 
> decided to write here again. 
> 
> What should I do?

I would suggest that you be easy on yourself about this.  This is your
mind trying to protect you from things stored inside that could be potentially
upsetting.  You are not in complete control of these things.  

> 
>  -vickie-
> 
*HUG* if you want one
> 
> 

- Taylor

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* Taylor W. Mohrle   (214) 245-6793  datasink!twm@europa.lonestar.org  *
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