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Psychological Symptoms 2
  Moreover, it is often not the symptoms themselves but the people’s attempts to disown or defend against these symptoms that give rise to the more longstanding psychological problems. Thus, some forms of pathology can be seen as the people’s ill-fated attempts to defend against their symptoms by forcing their pain out of their conscious experience. It then tends to show up in disguised forms like frequent headaches, chronic fatigue, uncontrolled anger, feelings of unreality and inauthenticity or other psychological derivatives of psychic pain. Therapy helps people realize that when one allows him/herself to feel whatever it is one spends his/her energy not to feel, one’s troublesome symptoms tend to wean off, and one begins to function better.
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