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Originally Posted by seekersinking
I asked T. today why do I have to dig up old pain when I just want to forget it? She said that if old pain is affecting me now, then it does need to be dealt with. If past pain is causing me problems in the here and now, it is better to examine it. Its kind of like I am tripping over the same emotional junk over and over.
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Well put.
Excuse me for playing Doctor, but here's how that stuff worked for me. I had had a trauma as an infant. I was so young I wasn't even beginning to speak. So there were no WORDS or logical thought with that trauma. With no words to remember, there was no way I could even talk about as an adult, literally no "memory" in the way we speak of memory.
But my BRAIN remembered. "When X appears, fire panic neurons because it is extra danger.... create flight."
So as an adult, I'd see anything remotely like X, and panic. NO REASON, the brain did it all by itself. There literally was no thought to it, even the first time the real trauma happened, that's key, literally no thought.
With the T's help, the PHYSICAL structure of the wiring in my brain changed, and it stopped firing those panic signals.
Simplistic explanation, but it's factual science. The BRAIN REWIRES, and that changes how you think and feel.