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Old Apr 08, 2022, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by eskielover View Post
For me the anger I was experiencing blocked out my knowledge of any other emotion going on because it was so overpowering. .. 15 years I have been away from it all & only some issues crop up but now my mind is finally in a state that solves issues rather than reacts to them in a dysfunctional way.
Your mind is relatively calm now, rather than the feeling of being in crisis and having to deal with things immediately, falling back on instinctual reactions. In calm one can analyze, which in crisis there is no time for that.

Do I have that right?
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