About episodic and semantic memories effect on emotions

[noloveinfear]

It's been awhile since I have posted anything. It's still really helpful to know that places like this are out there for people who have gone what we have gone through. Thanks everyone. I am a Psychology major and my focus now is on emotional memory (no doubt because of my own experiances). I was wondering about peoples input on semantic memories (knowledge that certain events happened) versus actually remembering the events as if reliving them (episodic memories) and how each effects their current emotions. So the difference between remembering that "I was abused" and remembering the actual abuse itself. I really want to figure some of this stuff out in order to help people with traumatic memories like many of you here an myself as well have to deal with. Thanks for your input and I hope this wasn't to confusing or out there!

Andrew