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do you mean protective as in to protect 'you' from the pain, or that the pain occurs to stop you from having these thoughts?
Protecting you from the pain. More detail in this post on internal family systems by @xuenay: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpBTZSip/p/5gfqG3Xcopscta3st …
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thanks dood thats defo the more usual take and a more reassuring one but i'm kinda partial to the idea that mental pain acts like physical pain i.e. 'its bad to touch this' seems a cool inversion
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Well in my model it's both; the subjective experience of it is trying to protect you from the pain, but the function of *that* is to stop you from having thoughts that could lead to undesired actions.
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