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Yes, very interesting.
Are you able to use to the culture-bound syndrome idea to help in your own recovery?
It suggests to me something I am already convinced about – that I need some kind of “re-socialization” after dealing (finally) with and absorbing the effects of childhood trauma that set in place patterns that ended up inflexible and dysfunctional.
And my most recent 11-year “crisis” – it followed my husband’s death, I gave up on completing a graduate school program, and my children grew up and left the nest. Given that I’m an introvert by temperament and had the maladaptive, rigid coping patterns – and then no social identity – well, yes . . . the notion that social and communal “rites of passage” can play a role in a person’s adaptation seems very interesting indeed!
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