There is something deeply, fundamentally frightening about not feeling fear where you remember having it before.
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The intricate balance of your being rests on a vast interplay of emotion. What you feel is holding you down is also keeping "you" together.
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It's like trying to pull apart a cotton yarn. You achieve nothing at all, except making a bigger mess, until you find the end. But then...
Different sorty or layer, of fear I think. Fear of specifics vs. fear of the unknown. Dread is perhaps a better word. Or terror.
Once you get there, fear has lost a bit of its bite... so it doesn't really feel the same as you're used to fear feeling. I guess you know!
I suppose it's different. I've never really had PTSD. Most of my healing has been about finding scared little children in deep, dark places.
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Interesting…I've yet to feel anything but satisfaction when I lost a fear. Maybe you're working at a more fundamental level.
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Not being afraid of fear, creates (at least right now) some weird dissonance. "How can it be that this doesn't scare me?"
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