1. It *is* normal. 2. This sentence is to help people acknowledge how they're feeling, instead of add pressure to put on a brave face and suppress it. 3. Those reactions aren't self-deprecating. That's like saying your emotions are wrong, instead of the ideas that cause them.
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This is also a valid point. Perhaps instead of saying "not normal" we can say "not required." The same point I wanted to make with
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In my experience, people who try to either foment or suppress their own fear end up mostly failing *and* bringing worse outcomes upon themselves
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Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
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I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
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So if you force yourself to "sit with" a "flee this" signal, you're not actually accepting your feelings at all.
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And at the same time, if we're not constantly examining the validity of the "flee this" response and exploring the unconscious material fueling it, we spend our whole life fleeing, often from life itself.
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People don't flee nearly enough.
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I'm serious, this is one hill I've been ready to die on for years — the number of people who are remaining in situations that sadden or frighten them and slowly dull their own sensitivity to themselves far, far, far outweighs the number who quit "too much"
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I think we're running into language semantics. What you describe is, to me, the opposite of fleeing. It is facing the reality of a situation. Much harder than "fleeing" into unconsciousness.
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I am not talking in metaphors, here. I'm talking about getting into a car.
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