Posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2006, at 20:06:08
In reply to Re: trauma and cycles in the present » alexandra_k, posted by Larry Hoover on January 1, 2006, at 12:01:42
> > i have been thinking...
> Were it ever otherwise, I should be looking for a pulse and respiration.heh heh :-)
> sometimes I see you persist in something that another has told you elicits discomfort. And I don't attribute that to malicious intent. More like doggedness. And, I think most people do that. I do it.ah. yes. i think i'm thinking of the same examples you are and... i agree. i think that is okay. but... i'm thinking of some different examples...
> And I think you judge yourself most harshly in those moments, when you are unable to act.
yes. but... i think we should. unless... the harsh judgement makes it still harder to act in which case it is counter-productive...
> That's what EMDR is all about. Catharsis. EMDR is like the Heimlich maneuver for the emotions.
ah. yeah.. i've read a little bit about that...
still... can't do it on myself (i don't think...) so need something else that i can do...> Oh, you mean in the catharsis? I always think of lancing a boil. In the greater scheme of time, it only hurts worse for a flash. And you soon knock yourself upside the head for having waited as long as you did.
yeah. i don't know... i worry about my functioning. i can't afford to have that disintegrate... need to keep on... need to keep keeping on... i want to get better at that. i want to be able to function even better... but i can't afford a period of reduced functioning in order to obtain that...
> Do you recall my interjection into your discussion with Dinah, the one about parcels?no.
> I don't know anna o,
well... she got a whole heap worse...
then she got better...
went on to do some pretty cool stuff...
always looked back scathingly on psychoanalysis...
she was one of the first people to do the 'catharsis' thing...
spent a fair amount of time in hospital...
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