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Understanding pain, mental illness, and grief
they're all consequences of our attempt to reconcile our mental model of how the world works with our experiences
It’s a giant warning sign in our head that says “Our model of the world is wrong, and we’re in danger until we fix it.” In this way, pain isn’t something to be feared; it’s a motivator for action. I run away both because staying would cause me to experience pain and confront the worldview I’ve built in which I’m free of the responsibility of working at things I think should be given freely to me (i.e. wealth, success, admiration, etc.). First, I think there’s a good chance that the mainstream-ification of therapy and the overuse of the concept of trauma has conditioned people to have lower resilience to things that happen and increased the potential of events to become traumatic.
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