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Psychological Symptoms 2
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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
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