User talk:Lucillews

I am not sure I am using this thing correctly, but here's a try. I'd like to discuss confabulation. How is it that one can say that another person is confabulating? If one of four siblings has a memory that the others do not, is it confabulation by the one or amnesia of the three? Especially in the case of abuse, either is possible.

Two of my siblings fully admit that they have few childhood memories. (The fourth sibling was raised elsewhere.) Yet when I bring up the subject of a memory that involves the abuse of one of them by our father, they claim that it never happened and that I must be confabulating. For one to confabulate, they must first forget. My mind was never so kind to me that it forgot these awful things. So could it be that so-called confabulators are remembering correctly and that their detractors are either amnesic or in denial? Confabulation just might possibly be a confabrication of the minds of well-intentioned psychologists and psychiatrists.Lucillews (talk) 20:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)