Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Life Is Not Fair

by Mary and Allegra

Friend at PsychForums: Many alters exist so that trauma memories are dissociated, separated from other alters. It is grotesquely unfair of relatively trauma-free alters to blame more traumatized alters for their pain and the resulting damage in them. Some parts suffer so that others don't have to. Respect them, thank them for what they sacrificed for you.

Does anyone have the reverse scenario in their system? Where those who were traumatized resent those who are trauma-free, because of the "unfairness" of only some people holding it?

For quite some time, this has been a big sticking point in our healing. We keep repeating the sentence, "Life is not fair." Yet, in a way, the emotions behind this statement of "unfairness" are real and valid--and an aspect of the trauma itself.

Each of us has a right to our feelings. But it's the digging in of heels, the use of these feelings as an excuse for not wanting to move forward until the "unfairness" is corrected....this is the problem for us.

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