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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
He told me that when children's needs go unnoticed or unfulfilled persistently, they respond by suppressing their needs to the extent that they don't learn to recognize them and that creates anxiety.
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That was me, for sure. Then when all of those repressed needs suddenly got released, it was traumatic for me. I got flooded and almost had a breakdown.
I can't see the inability to recognize them as anxiety. Hopefully I will someday, but I could text my T 100 times a day, and still crave closeness. It seems like an insatiable need, in my case. That's why I sometimes think of it as a "want".
edit: I don't even know if that makes sense-haha