Thank you for this post. If it's okay, I want to vent a bit about how this myth affected me.

The way my university taught me in 2011 about memory and trauma followed the false memory model essentially. It felt like "if a trauma survivor recounts their experience, there's a very good chance that they are wrong about significant details". Not just "they don't remember", but straight up "they remember incorrectly". This happened in two separate courses (one was about linguistics in law and one was an entry level psychology course).

I grew up getting invalidated, I was getting invalidated in my relationship, and having my fucking school invalidate my experiences too was the last thing I needed at 18. The information I was receiving from people who I believed knew better told me that the experiences/feelings I was having didn't exist. It made me feel crazy.

This MASSIVELY contributed to me going into an OCD-spiral where I was obsessively trying to understand how memory worked, invalidating myself, and literally spending hours every day FOR YEARS trying to research false memories because I thought I was having them. And I also felt like I couldn't bring these thoughts up to a therapist because, according to the information provided, that would lead to the creation of more false memories. It took me almost a fucking decade to talk about it. I literally tried to kill myself before I was willing to share anything because I was so scared of having thoughts inserted into my brain.

I realize I'm responsible for my own behavior and that the intent wasn't to harm me, but it was fucking awful and I doubt that I'm the only person with a similar experience. It did serious damage. And it's also just straight up incorrect shitty information that fails completely to capture the actual experience of trauma.

I really hope things change.