Can you actually forget/repress completely a traumatic event?

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Like, say someone experienced some type of abuse as a child. Is it possible for them to repress this event so strongly they don’t remember it in their adult life? Just feel the effects of unexplained mental illness? Or is this just a thing in the movies?

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I totally forgot a traumatic experience for a good ten years. Basically my mother had these really bad manic episodes when I was 9, and it wasn’t until I was 18 that I remembered them. It was like I just hadn’t thought about it at all for years.

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