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Thread #111230   Message #2341170
Posted By: Little Hawk
15-May-08 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: I was accused of child abuse
Subject: RE: BS: I was accused of child abuse
She sounds rather like Nurse Ratched to me.

This whole business of witch hunting for supposed child abuse and hounding parents over it went absolutely insane in the 1980s as Kat said. It became very fashionable at that time to accuse parents of that and its more fervent proponents developed into something akin to a weird religious cult. Some of them are still around today, busily ruining the lives of innocent people in their righteous zeal to uncover what ain't there. It's one of the sickest phenomena that I have ever witnessed in the medical field.

I once was getting counselling from one of those individuals, and she was convinced that at least 99 per cent of all the people in society had been sexually abused as children, and most had buried the memories...and she spent a great deal of my time and money trying to convince me that I had been so abused and trying to reawaken my "lost memories" of the incident(s).

Yeah, right. I'll tell you something...it's darned hard to reawaken a memory you never had! ;-) God help us. I put up with her quite a big longer than I should have, because she was quite capable in many other ways and helped me with some other issues...but this nonsense about chasing down the buried memory of something that I am 99.9 per cent sure never happened to me....sheesh! Un-frikkin'-beleevable. You would have to have been there to know just how idiotic it can get. And she remains, of course, convinced to this day that everyone she meets was sexually abused as a child...probably by their close relatives.

You cannot reason with a mindset like that, because it's exactly like the most extreme forms of religious fanaticism.