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Old Feb 26, 2010, 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Kaika View Post
many months ago I went back into denial... and for a very long time all seemed to be back to normal...
but increasing every day
Is a kind of tension within my mind
as though these things never really left
and are just lurking, waiting
for the slightest crack in my vigilance
to spring forth again.
I'm with Hunny on this:
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Originally Posted by Hunny View Post
It seems like denial is a place to go to, at times, for some good reasons...

Sometimes forcing things make it worse so it is good to let it unfold as it seems to be.
Throughout my teens and twenties I worried that, bad as things seemed at times, I was obviously in denial or they'd look and feel even worse. In retrospect it looks like a lot of my problems stemmed from obsessing about being in denial and/or not vigilant enough.

I understand that a very similar attitude was (and apparently still is) known in religious circles as scrupulosity. I'm not Catholic (nor even Christian) but although this article is clearly from a Catholic perspective, I found it very interesting from a psychological one as well. I'm taking the liberty of "linkluding" it here, not for the explicitly religious discussion in it but for its surprisingly enlightened views (IMO) on scrupulosity:

Liguori Publications: Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous