Research shows that the vast majority of physical and sexual assault victims do not spontaneously reveal their histories to their doctors or therapists. If anything, there is a tendency to forget or to deny pain. One study followed up on young girls who had been treated in an emergency ward for proven sexual abuse. When contacted seventeen years later as adult women, 40 percent of these abuse victims either did not recall or denied the event outright. Yet their memory was found to be intact for other incidents in their lives.
Dr. Gabor Maté – In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction p.374
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