whatashrinkthinks.com
former psychotherapist - now facilitating workshops on death, dreams, community resilience and psychologies of liberation
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
Quaker-ish
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đź’ś
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I’m glad you listened. There should be a kind of purple heart for that
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So hard. So hard.
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(Even defending against/denying it for the rest of a life can be a big psychological drain)
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I mean, lots of people don’t think they will have a problem with that at all and may not.
But I like to ask people to consider potential moral injury as a possibility - because doing something you think is justified and finding out later you cannot bear it is a bitch
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We need our very animal bodies to carry us.
But probably not great to be wholly/permanently possessed by them, or cross over into acts that are too much to forgive yourself for later.
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Here's where the link takes you. Seems not great. www.hhs.gov/about/news/2...
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Oligarchy in progress. What's your plan to stop this:
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Like looking back in time at another life.
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Amazing!
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He introduced them to each other. He was their mutual friend.
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How are they not always just punching each other in their smug doltish faces?
I don’t think I could spend a minute in a room with any of them without reaching for a lamp to smash on their heads.
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This! Not a fixed state!!!
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Not at all.
We are all going to be animals at massive stress points. We are all gonna break.
The question is if you stay there or come back to yourself and if that is even possible in the very worst circumstances
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Every time I see their ugly mouths and dead eyes I want to take a swing.
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How are they not always just punching each other in their smug doltish faces?
I don’t think I could spend a minute in a room with any of them without reaching for a lamp to smash on their heads.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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YES.
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I just want to stay human and don’t assume that is a fixed or given state.
It’s going to be ongoing work.
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My grandmother-in-law was an Auschwitz/Bergen-Belsen survivor along with her then 14 year old daughter.
When we would encounter other women she had been in the camps with she would whisper to me as they left
“She stayed a human”
Or “she became an animal”
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The spring winds are a thing here! They do pass 🌸
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this seem pretty hair-splitty to me.
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There is definitely some terrible shape-wear happening.
Looks like my grandma's girdle