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Originally Posted by ECHOES
Your post also is making me think about my wanting comfort. Comfort IS a distraction and it's why it feels good to receive; the person offering the comfort provides relief and distraction, so I don't have to feel so much. So, I think that wanting comfort is yet another way I resist or attempt to resist in therapy. Wanting comfort becomes a point of stop-thinking. Wanting comfort stops me from exploring some things because I tell myself that there would be no comfort, so why even go there.
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You know what, this is making me think too, about this want that I have for comfort....maybe I am simply letting that want distract me or be a deliberate obstacle in front of the tears so that I don't have to let them come....Like your thought - I know I won't be held if I cry, so no comfort, so why go there. I have touch/comfort and tears all entwined. I need to separate out the want for touch/comfort from the tears, and learn how to just be with the tears, to let them come, touch or no touch!