The ‘thorny’ topic of repressed memories usually misses the fact that at least some ‘repression’ is the same thing ‘directed forgetting’, the terms are interchangeable, and that bad memories, real or fake, repressed or forgotten, all cause the same kinds of damage. As the article puts it:

But for survivors of sexual abuse, the argument over repression versus forgetting is largely beside the point. Most victims are primarily concerned with what they remember, not how.