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Originally Posted by Alishia88
I think it sort of does. Because you lose the connection to yourself.
At least this is how it feels to me...
I sort of can imagine, when you bring back all the memories and feelings that belong to you, you can restore the relationship...
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Sounds about right to me. Repressing a traumatic experience means diverting
your attention from the memory of the experience.
Any time you sense the memory wants to come into your awareness,
any time something reminds you of the memory,
you try to focus on something else. You break any possible relationship, progress, development, or catharsis with the memory.
So, instead of processing the memory (catharsis), the memory haunts you.
And I think all that is true with any repression, traumatic or not.
So, the question is, how do we reconnect to painful and fearful experience?