A sex crime victim with retrograde amnesia

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Let us consider this: a person is a victim of a sex crime. Naturally, they are devastated and traumatized. Then they get into an accident and suffer retrograde amnesia. They remember nothing of their lives prior to the accident including the sex crime they were a victim. Would it be right to simply never tell them of what happened to them when helping them remember their life before the attack?

For me the decision would be easy to make albeit possibly hard to put in action. I would never tell them and do all that I can with whatever professional help I can possibly get to make sure the person never gets those memories back. My reason is that being sexually victimized is something that is very awful, and it seems to me that if a sex crime victim has no memory of the attack (and lost those memories sometime after the incident then they will likely be better off and not deal with the number of issues that victims of such crimes often suffer from such as PTSD, depression, and a whole sort of mental issues.

[trooneh]

That brings up the issue of what happens if they do find out what happened, and then wonder why you never told them. In that case, not telling them may backfire big time.

[User Deleted]

Don't tell them. It saves so much stress. Sometimes, even though knowledge is power, it can be painful.

[Magenta]

Not telling them would save them a lot of pain. If they were to remember it themselves, however, you'd have to be prepared to help them out in that situation. I do think though that unless they ask you to tell them everything (I wouldn't want to lie), you could always omit that for their own benefit.

It's hard when it comes to what a person should know about themselves because it is their own head versus what you think is good for them.

Good topic!