Hey guys a couple of weeks ago I was speaking to a family member and we were talking about the past. Then out of the blue she mentions a very personal thing that happened to my mother, of which I had no recollection of (it happened about 9 years ago when I was 12) she then mentions her version of events. So here it goes.
She gets a phone call from my mum saying she's bleeding and needs to go to hospital so she rushes over to our house where she finds my mum in her bedroom bleeding quite alot and in agony with my brother crying hysterically and me just standing there. So she calls her husband from work and he comes and collects us and takes my brother and I to their house, while my mum is rushed to hospital.
So that night we wait up till very late at night when my family member comes home and tells us that our mum is fine and puts us to bed. In the morning my mum was discharged from hospital and in the afternoon we were reunited and we went home back to our house as a family my brother my mum and I.
The weird part is the story i've given you is my family members version of events. I have no recollection about the day which is weird as I normally have a good memory and have memories of a couple of days after the "event" but nothing of the actual event. Also i've been forbidden by my family member to talk to my brother about it as she doesn't want to bring back the memories of a traumatic event to him, (he's never mentioned it either to me in conversation)
So anyway this revelation has really freaked me out like why can't I remember any of this as it was a traumatic event that I should remember.Is there any other memories i'm repressing, or maybe i'm a just a sociopath and it didn't effect me at all so that's why i don't remember the event at all.
What's your guys views on the situation and have you ever "repressed a memory" that you know of?
She gets a phone call from my mum saying she's bleeding and needs to go to hospital so she rushes over to our house where she finds my mum in her bedroom bleeding quite alot and in agony with my brother crying hysterically and me just standing there. So she calls her husband from work and he comes and collects us and takes my brother and I to their house, while my mum is rushed to hospital.
So that night we wait up till very late at night when my family member comes home and tells us that our mum is fine and puts us to bed. In the morning my mum was discharged from hospital and in the afternoon we were reunited and we went home back to our house as a family my brother my mum and I.
The weird part is the story i've given you is my family members version of events. I have no recollection about the day which is weird as I normally have a good memory and have memories of a couple of days after the "event" but nothing of the actual event. Also i've been forbidden by my family member to talk to my brother about it as she doesn't want to bring back the memories of a traumatic event to him, (he's never mentioned it either to me in conversation)
So anyway this revelation has really freaked me out like why can't I remember any of this as it was a traumatic event that I should remember.Is there any other memories i'm repressing, or maybe i'm a just a sociopath and it didn't effect me at all so that's why i don't remember the event at all.
What's your guys views on the situation and have you ever "repressed a memory" that you know of?