She describes having intrusive memories about her traumatic experiences on a daily basis but she declines to share any details. Iris’s mother has been supporting her throughout all of this and Iris’s mother has been abused by Iris’s father. They have a very strong bond and this has been causing them to have ups and downs in their relationship. Having Dissociative Amnesia has impacted the relationship between her and her mother. She has Dissociative Amnesia, type: Selective. I don’t even call them my dad or my sister, I call them by their first name.” Trust me when I say that I absolutely despise them, especially my father. They’ve done a lot worse things to me in the past. Iris says “This is one of the best incidences that my dad and sister have done to me. One of the things that she remembered is when she was about 6-years-old and her father grabbed her by the neck, picked her up, and yelled at her for spilling a (plastic) cup of milk, he then threw her against the corner of the granite counter after she tried to fight back. Iris remembers that her half sister (7-years-older) tried to kill her every time she comes over to their dad’s house and that Iris got abused by her dad. Iris can’t recall a lot of the little things in her past and she can’t remember anything from her dad’s house before first grade. Over the past 2 months, she has been remembering certain things about her past, thanks to the new type of therapy. Her symptoms include memory loss and gain, ADHD, Insomnia, Anxiety, and poor concentration. Iris had been in therapy since 2011 for the (almost) 15 years of abuse from her biological dad and sister. She sees a therapist at a mental health clinic. Iris is a 15-year-girl who’s a Sophomore and lives in Maine. The person can remember some, but not all of the events that took place during a limited period of time.
These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. (Selective) Dissociative Amnesia: A disorder characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps.
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