Trauma

Recovered repressed memories is one of the most bitter controversies in the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry, and it sparked the memory war of the 90s when there was a surge of victims coming forward to report sexual abuse from childhood that they only recovered the memories of during therapy. The issue with that some of the methods used were hypnosis, drug-assisted therapy, and guided visualization, all of which have a high risk of suggestibility and can create false memories within the patient, and there was debate as to whether someone could really have forgotten something so traumatic at all. After researchers began doing studies on the topic, the general consensus was that some recovered memories are true and some are false and that the worse the trauma is, the more likely your mind will bury it.