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Aswad -> RE: Feelings of worthlessness (9/15/2007 12:52:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: catize
Is he (and are you) suggesting that events should not change us, that we are flawed if we allow them to change us?
I cannot answer for Montaigne, only say that he's whacked.
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As an example, is it humanly possible for a person who has been raped to think of it simply as non-consensual sex and not let it have a negative impact?
Is it humanly possible for a person who was punched out to think of it simply as being punched out?
Depends on the human, and the feedback they get from it all.
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It is my understanding of basic psychiatry that every experience, whether positive or negative, affects the brain chemicals.
Brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) are not static, even while there is nothing happening.
There are two words for lack of neurotransmitter activity: coma and brain-death.
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That leads me to believe that our torment is a physiological response to trauma.
No, the response to the trauma is the initial reaction. The torment comes later.
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The severity of the trauma can alter the recuperation time.
Sure. But the severity of the subsequent coping problems is what determines healing time.
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In the latter case, do we blame the person because of those complications that affect the recovery period?
Who is blaming anyone?
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But even then, it is still there behind us, a part of us that we cannot completely detach from.
The past is always there.
What differs is how we interpret it, and how we incorporate it into our lives.
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To acknowledge our shadow is a means to make it small enough that we can manage it and not allow it to manage us.
Which I did not contradict. But examine your anthropomorphization of this shadow: it lives in you.
Health,
al-Aswad.
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