Our minds and bodies are designed to feel pain as an alert to a signal to which we must pay attention in order to shield ourselves from further pain. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away; instead it allows the source to persist in inflicting it.
The conundrum that so many face may be differentiating between acknowledging the pain versus dwelling in it, much like how we often mishandle guilt, which is another feeling that is a signal to do something, not a feeling in which to remain and endlessly suffer.
What to do with pain is muddled in our minds by the disordered person who delivers maneuvers such as gaslighting, repeated attacks, and other manipulations of signals and our thinking processes, which confuse & distract us from dealing with it, keeping us in a constant state of pain and “fight or flight” which shorts our circuits and wears us down. Thus the resulting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Psychopaths sabotage our signals. It is imperative to trust our pain and our gut reactions to it.
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