Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question: How would you describe yourself right now? The description I use for myself — to myself — determines how I am treated. In the not too distant past, I viewed myself with the lowlifes, the users, the drinkers, those that abuse themselves and others. NotContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ How Do You See Yourself?”
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Mirror Mirror ~ When the Mind Forgets
Introspection — what better way to start a week. Question: Don’t I deserve to know myself fully? Traumatic Amnesia Amnesia is usually the result of physical damage to areas of the brain from injury, disease, or alcoholism. Psychologic factors may also cause amnesia; a shocking or unacceptable situation may be too painful to remember, andContinue reading “Mirror Mirror ~ When the Mind Forgets”
What Trauma Is Not
It is not an ordinary hardship. It is not the loss of a good job. It is not the death of an animal. These are the ordinary human experience. I listen to the stories of people as often as I can. What I usually hear is what people do, not who they are. That’s aContinue reading “What Trauma Is Not”
When the Mind Forgets
Traumatic Amnesia Amnesia is usually the result of physical damage to areas of the brain from injury, disease, or alcoholism. Psychologic factors may also cause amnesia; a shocking or unacceptable situation may be too painful to remember, and the situation is then retained only in the subconscious mind. The technical term for this is repression.Continue reading “When the Mind Forgets”