“Alex was made to believe by an abuser that he was a monster. He ruined the family, and it was all his fault. In our brains,” she looked at us, “there’s a defense mechanism that will bury a traumatic situation that is too hard for us to process. It’s why Alex is struggling to remember any of it. His terrors seem to be memories to him, but they’re based on what his father has told him about what happened with his brother. I don’t believe for a second Alex had anything to do with
