Posted by Dinah on October 29, 2004, at 3:13:52
In reply to Shadowplayers, Joslyn, Larry and all other support, posted by antigua on October 28, 2004, at 15:12:30
I haven't exactly known how to respond to this thread, but I hope you all know that you have my wholehearted support. It pains me to think that people feel like they need to justify their experience here on Babble. I've never recovered any memories. I've had memories surface insistently at times, but they've never been anything that I didn't already know. But I have experienced things that other people might say can't possibly be experienced. And they might have tons of studies showing why it can't be true. But I also understand why the studies come to that conclusion. If you start out with a certain set of assumptions, and base the result on those assumptions, studies are inherently flawed. I always figure that there's too much we don't know about the brain and how it works, and too many endless permutations of nature and nurture to make global assumptions or definitive statements about internal workings of the mind in general and even moreso the workings of any specific mind.
Not everyone agrees with me, of course. :)
I know it's hard to be at peace when others are "doubting" your experiences. I know I torment myself by looking up stuff on the internet. But maybe we can support each other at accepting who we are and what we've experienced, and not allowing the words of others to shake that. (I'll need a lot of help and support in that area, myself.)
poster:Dinah
thread:406646
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20041026/msgs/408657.html