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PTSD brings an emotion, sadness from four decades ago.
It feels real. Is it real?
Sure feels real but it is many decades past.
My mind must be broke.
The mind (PTSD) creates negative emotions from past memories.
Why do they have power in this current space?
Perplexing!
Emotions can last as little as three seconds or with PTSD many decades.
Childhood Trauma is emblazoned forever inside our adolescent brains.
Seems that old sadness feels like fake sadness, or stale sadness, not fresh, not applicable to me, now.
I have eliminated some of these old trauma emotions, more to go for us, it seems.
If you give up easy, childhood PTSD will become Satan.
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Posted by rudid96 on January 23, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Here’s my question: What’s the difference between being stuck in an old sadness and trying to process an old sadness? The sadness is from the past but how does one address it if not look at it?
Posted by Marty on January 23, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Impossible for us to see or feel that difference
The old sadness lives on its own stored as implicit memory
The best I could do was not be afraid of PTSD
That takes some of its power
Ptsd needs fear to be its most powerful
Fear was much more damaging for me
When we process we are in observer mode
Sadness is right over there
Seeing it and being it, two worlds apart
That is the difference in my mind
Posted by rudid96 on January 23, 2021 at 3:49 pm
Thank you for clarifying the difference. Working on this presently.
Posted by Marty on January 23, 2021 at 3:59 pm
I love you doing the work
We work to be observer
Thoughts and emotions are appendages out at the top of our finger
Way away from our soul
True self
Core
That crap out there can not touch our core
Observe it like it was our ventriloquist dummy talking and judging
If we can observe the sadness
It has no fuel