Posted by Dinah on January 24, 2008, at 19:46:31
In reply to Re: Question for people with painful T love feelings » JoniS, posted by AbbieNormal on January 24, 2008, at 17:53:59
I don't know if this is true for you. But my brain tends to form obsessions to divert me from something else.
So if I'm stressed at work, I become obsessed about buying something or another. I spend hours researching it, etc. And in the end, whether I get it or not, it's cost me hours that I would have better spent doing something at work which would have reduced my stress.
So maybe some of the obsessive quality of thoughts about therapy and therapists, for those of us who tend to have defense mechanisms of the obsessive sort, is to distract our brains from the scarier therapy thoughts.
For the record, this realization has brought me no relief at all. Apparently the obsessive defense mechanism is operated at a different level of the brain.
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