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Thanks for sharing chickenbone. It sounds like you have been able to process and defuse the tension these events were generating. I was curious, what techniques did you find helpful in accessing these memories? Was it mainly journaling?

Great point Bruce. This is something that I actually posted about recently in another thread. Past events, especially traumatic ones that Chickenbone mentioned, are going to be a major factor in why/how we develop a repressive personality. I know that the main reason I have anxiety has to do with my mother dying when I was young. At the same time, if we don't learn how to "defuse the psychological process" when we explore the past we can easily increase our anxiety and have our symptoms worsen. I find full recovery happens when we connect our childhood events with how we repress emotions in the present. If you can do that you can reduce the emotional tension building up inside of you.