Should I be worried? (Memory loss & trauma)

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I have gone through some very traumatic events in the last 10 years of my life. I don't want to get into details but includes abusive relationship, near death experience, loss of a baby.

I am 'through the other side' at this point and moving on with my life. However I am having problems with my memory. I have massive gaps from the past ten years (all from the time the traumatic events were going on)

i remember some things but then other things are a complete blank. There is a period of 2 years strait I have no memory at all.

ive been kind of ignoring it, but it's now gotten to the point my friends are noticing and commenting on how bad my memory is / getting concerned that I can't recall things.

is this something I should be worried and go to the dr about? I've read that sometimes in situations like these the brain basically blocks out the memories to protect itself, and I'm not desperate to get the memories back but I don't want it to get worse or be something else that's left unchecked

I also feel a bit silly as a person in their 20's going to the doctors about memory loss :/

Sorry to hear you have had such a hard 10 years, very happy for you that you have turned a corner.

Its common to repress very traumatic times in our lives, it’s our minds way of coping. I would say there is no harm visiting the doctors for a professional opinion. Sometimes the the trauma can come out in other ways later, anxiety, OCD etc so they may recommend speaking to someone to process the events.

Yes this is very common with traumatic events/time periods.

In some people this can lead on to flashbacks and issues with anxiety and other problems.

In others it doesn't.

If you have any of these issues it's worth seeing a GP to get referred for counselling or accessing it in another way as this might help.

If you are not having any of these other issues then you probably don't need it:

I've been through a lot of trauma in recent years and my brain is sometimes totally scrambled. It's not uncommon but it wouldn't hurt to get a check up.