Completely blanked out events

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Does anyone else experience this?

There are things in my life that I have absolutely no memory of. I know they happened, other people who were with me remember them, they're in my diary, but I have no recollection whatsoever.

They're not bad things, if anything they would have been positive, enjoyable activities, but try as I might to remember them, I can't at all.

This has happened in childhood but I'm also noticing it now. There are only a few events - although I guess there could be more if I don't remember them!

Anyone else? Or any insight?

I know of someone who has very few childhood memories - alcoholic parents, abusive father. Why would you want to remember that?
If you cannot recall events as an adult, were you drinking too much?
Or do you need to see your GP?

No abuse, no drinking (I think I was driving). As I said, positive, enjoyable events. I just dont remember them - in fact I would have sworn blind that they didn't happen, if I didn't have assurance from everyone else that I was there...

It can be due to disassociation. I have it, but my childhood was so screwed up my brain won't access that information as it is stored in the wrong part of the brain, google lizard brain and trauma memories.

I don't know if it was the same for you, but it sounds as if whilst the experiences where pleasant, there was some kind of threat. Was there anyone you had to walk around eggshells for?

Alternatively, maybe you were too young to form the memories, how is your memory now thinking of recent events and those about a month or two ago?

Oh I see, so these are more recent?

Might be worth having a think of this

Dh has very few memories before secondary age. So much so, he sometimes queries when I say something I remember. He doesn't even remember things like starting school.
He had a fairly quiet ideal child hood, I think he just doesn't particularly have memories from then.

I have very few memories of my childhood - wasn't a particularly good one and I think I have blanked a lot of stuff out. I have snapshots of things are quite disturbing and don't want to delve any deeper.

The most recent event I know I don't remember was about 10 years ago, part of a celebration, with people I am close to. No threats, danger etc.

I also remember similar thing happening on a trip out when I was a child - no memory of any of it, not even a hazy one!

I don't think I have any symptoms of adult ADHD.

It's just really odd that everyone else remembers these events but not me - even if I really try.

I had PND which wasn't diagnosed for 4years. I descended really slowly down a spiral of misery and strange behaviour. Lots of things from that four years I have no memory of, even nice things like weekends away with friends. I didn't realise at the time that I was depressed, and DH only afterwards realised that there was something "not quite right" because I had a really horrible haircut during that time that was not at all me! It does scare me sometimes that Ive "lost" four years of DS2's life but I'm better now and he doesn't remember and not does DS1 so I try and make a joke of it and all my close friends/family understand and are nice about reminding me of happy occasions that I have forgotten about.

I don't think I have adult ADD or similar! Just my brain was so busy coping with PND that it didn't store memories properly. Or something.

My DB and I have been discussing this recently. We're both clever, good jobs, solid relationships but have a real issue remembering things from the past.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/digest.bps.org.uk/2015/06/01/some-perfectly-healthy-people-cant-remember-their-own-lives/amp/

This made interesting reading and there's a website....

Forgot to add- no trauma, lovely parents, all good.

Just we only really have memories of other people telling us what we did later....

I had a very strange experience as a child of getting back a maths test I had zero recollection of taking. It makes me wonder what else I have forgotten.