Dear Martin:

From my experience, those repressed memories are held tight in the brain, in tightly wound knots, so to speak. My memories are returning in such small, tiny dosages, and not the scary ones, but the pleasant ones instead (those repressed with the scary ones). I did have a few flashes of scary experiences but they were very short in duration and not overwhelming.

I too used to worry about being scared, overwhelmed by memories, if unleashed. Again, it is my personal experience that it is not so. The same brain that repressed the memories, the emotional memories (and in my case I remember very little of my history), does an excellent job- consistent with the aim of self preservation, at not overwhelming me.

And there is a very gradual calming of my mind in the process. A very gradual process.

anita