Posted by alexandra_k on September 15, 2004, at 3:31:46
In reply to Re: Missing time/abreaction:write1, posted by Susan47 on September 14, 2004, at 18:56:15
I think that there is something about memories being encoded differently before we are able to verbalise them. Memories that occur before that stage of our cognitive development would tend to be episodic, I guess. So to verbalise them would always be a retrospective activity. I think that that would be fairly early on, though I guess that we continue in our cognitive / verbal development through into our teens... (sorry, more thinking on paper than anything).
I get missing time. Not for chunks much more than a couple of days at a time, though. Things occur to me from my childhood. But then I guess years of assessments where I had to recount major life events would tend to crystalise that.
Sometimes it is like I just go into 'my major life events' storytelling mode. I don't / can't emotionally connect with it. Maybe I don't really get the episodic memories of it. Not sure if this is a different sort of forgetting or not.
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