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Originally Posted by Kaika
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.
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I'm with Hunny on this:
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Originally Posted by Hunny
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.
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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