Re: Woman in Green…

…”I do not understand how they could not relate Stepford Wives to Woman in Green.  Because there was little if anything in Stepford Wives to connect it to Woman in Green other than the color green in the little girls top, well there were the aprons…I just don’t know, I think most of it had either been dissociated off or I and my family acted much of it out which is likely the case and why I did not recollect it until viewing the film again which then melded the whole thing into one big mass of a problem in my opinion.

I re-enacted my childhood molestations throughout my childhood and into my adult life until I was 33.   I forget what had happened to me in my childhood because it was never treated and never appropriately integrated so that I understood what was happening to me.  I basically accepted it as normal behavior even though I did not like what was happening to me.  I finally learned what was done to me was inappropriate after reading Janet Woititz’s book on sexual abuse in the 80’s after I was refused treatment because of insurance.

So you see it is possible that acting out or re-enacting which ever you prefer to label it does affect recollection because you are caught up in the drama.   Again I learned through reading, about acting out and re-enactments and PTSD.   I thank god for that skill.