Australia

I've been on DSP for 10 years and NDIS for 5 years because of being repeatedly hit by my ex-wife. I have no ability to focus anymore which means I'm not able to do my previous work as a research scientist or programmer, and or even to take care of myself without help. Its unknown how much of it is due to PTSD and how much is CTE-type damage from repeatedly being slapped over a long relationship.

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“What our research shows is that compared to a single-event witness, a repeated-event witness tends to report more gist-like details, the overall details of what typically would happen, and the things that remain constant between the episodes,” said Helen Paterson, an associate professor in forensic psychology at the University of Sydney. “Sometimes they confuse one episode with another.”

Paterson’s work has also found that repeated-event witnesses are perceived to be “less honest, less cognitively competent, and less overall credible than the single-event witnesses – which is pretty concerning that the more repeatedly you are victimised, the less credible you appear to others”.

"in trial, it’s defence 101 to say … they’ve made this inconsistency, therefore their whole memory is unreliable,”