I don't mean to overstep, but if you ever feel like those repressed memories are taking a toll on your current behaviors/relationships, I highly recommend seeking out a therapist trained in EMDR. Ketamine treatment was also very helpful for me.

I have experienced just as much, if not more, trauma than Augusten Burroughs and I was incredibly uncomfortable when I read his books because he puts on such a show of it, you know? Super sensationalized, going for shock value simply for its own sake, and obnoxiously arrogant. It was clear to me straight away that it was 99% fiction, and it sickens me that someone would so ostentatiously belittle people who have actually experienced this type of trauma for real. It's a flash fiction mockery. I'm (slowly) taking a course for memoir writing and there really is a whole formula with regard to the most effective way to evoke and relay your memories - the process of writing and that of remembering become intertwined. Last but not least, those of us who have experienced serious trauma (I have CPTSD) typically go through intense therapy (EMDR) to recover repressed memories in order to fully process them and start healing from them. Memoir writing thus becomes something of an act of healing in and of itself. Or it's supposed to, if you're not a fraud.