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I do have diagnosed disorders; I have had serious emotional pain in recent years; however I'm not in therapy for any of those reasons, because for me I haven't found it helpful in those regards. I'm actually in therapy to work through how some prior therapy and other varieties of psychological interference happen to have negatively impacted my psychological health. Seems like the best place to talk through the complicated and rather personal dynamics that are involved, and for me it's been some of the most effective time I've spent in therapy in a very long time.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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