Richy Vegas - The artwork and music of Richard Alexander
  • Home
  • About Richard Alexander
  • Comic Books
  • Music
  • Art
  • YouTube
  • Blog
  • Contact/Social Media/Patreon

Recovered memories

4/16/2019

0 Comments

 
Issue number 18 of my comic book starts into the "recovered memories" phase of my psychosis in 1992.  Recovered memories are a thoroughly debunked concept that fall into the same kind of category as facilitated communication as discarded avenues of inquiry.  Facilitated communication was supposed to supply a means for the nonverbal autistic or otherwise severely verbally and intellectually impaired to communicate with the world. A fully functioning person would "guide" an impaired person's finger or hand on a chart of the alphabet and, oh, the fun that ensued.  People started getting skeptical when things such as allegations of sexual abuse conducted by people who had airtight alibis, such as abuse by a deceased grandparent at the time the abuse supposedly occurred, started cropping up in these communications.  Recovered memories are now widely recognized a hallucinations in the more skeptically minded commentators of such phenomena.  Rosanne Barr, with the aid of a therapist, had a recovered memory of her parents sexually abusing her at the age of six months.

In this part of the story, I'm going for the idea that I want to bring across my total conviction that these memories had a basis in reality  when I first experienced them.  My literary role model for this part of the story is Mark Vonnegut and his book, The Eden Express.  Someone described the experience of reading The Eden Express as similar to reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  In Fear and Loathing..., Thompson describes massive drugs binges of all kinds.  The person describing Eden Express ​to me said that Vonnegut gives a similar visceral feeling of what it must be like to be psychotic to the reader of his ordeal, even if the reader has never been psychotic.  I just changed a passage at the end of issue number 18 to indicate that I initially greeted the first wave of hallucinations with no ability to think critically about what I was going through.  In effect, these "recovered memories" struck me as totally real, and I believed I was going through an evolution of consciousness rather than a psychosis.

People may find it hard to believe the hold these kinds of experiences can still have on me.  I had another vision of the Legend of Richy Vegas in the Summer of 2016; this time while on medication and decidedly not psychotic, and its power still holds me to the point where I won't talk about it in detail or specifics on a forum such as this blog.

I've looked at Youtube videos that go into Dissociative Identity Disorder and whether that is real or not.  The famous case of Sybil and her sixteen different personalities turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by an unscrupulous therapist and her willing patient.  So yeah, maybe Dissociative Identity Disorder now.  Y-y-yep.  



 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    August 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    March 2012
    January 2012

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Site Design Lipsting Media | ©2012 Richard Alexander | richyvegas@gmail.com