The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel better

Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by rendx on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:15PM (#45327856)

You add another ad hominem, great. You know nothing about me and my educational background. You are not required to engage in a discussion, but my point stands: You provide no supporting evidence whatsoever for your perspective. Good bye.

"In light of our accumulating empirical and theoretical understanding, genuine recovered memory experiences no longer appear as bizarre or counter-intuitive as they have been painted by those who are skeptical of their occurrence. The field has not been well-served by much of the existing literature, which has uncritically embraced a variety of myths, logical errors, and false assumptions, and adopted a simplistic approach to what are complex and fascinating memory phenomena […]"

Brewin, C.R. (2012). A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Recovered Memory Experiences. In: Belli, R. (eds) True and False Recovered Memories. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol 58. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1195-6_5

The Rise and Fall of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation

https://news.isst-d.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-false-memor...

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Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by ants_everywhere on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:29PM (#45327953)

Yes we are all familiar with the repressed memory cranks like Chris Brewin. He's been at it since the 1990s.

You are not my child and it's not my job to educate you. I'm not going to explain physics to everyone who thinks he has a perpetual motion device either.

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Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by rendx on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:33PM (#45327980)

You are totally right. Nobody asked you to respond to my contributions in this thread. You decided to talk down on me and other people with zero arguments other than personal attacks. That's fully on you. "We are all familiar" with that pattern.

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Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by ants_everywhere on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:51PM (#45328064)

I responded because I care about science education and psychology education and wanted to correct the record.

When someone comes in with a bunch of links that can be confusing to people who don't know the field.

If you have motivation and strong enough confirmation bias you can find papers that claim to support anything. Even the existence of telepathy https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=extrasensory+perception

That's why it's hard to have good judgment about a field unless you've studied it formally.

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