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Old Feb 09, 2011, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by elliemay View Post
.....Yes, I had to get my truth out there, but then I had to deal with that truth. Dealing with that truth is when my life started to significantly improve.
this is Herman's third phase, and it's important for T clients working on trauma to be aware that she points to this phase as the place where there is greatest danger of giving up, of self harm ..... Once the realization is no longer run away from, but faced...

ARRRRGH!!!!! It infuriates me so, when i hear insensitive remarks that belittle people in therapy as being weaklings. This is DAMNED hard work, harder than those jerks could ever comprehend. I am so glad to find the PC community, where the truth of it is known.
Thanks for this!
elliemay