Is Your Gratitude Really a Defense Mechanism in Disguise?
Comparing pain as a way to halt healing.
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4 min readDec 1, 2020
In my family, and I suspect in the families of many people, it was common to discuss people who had it harder as a way to soothe our own pain.
Someone on the news who had been through something terrible? Thank god we don’t know what that’s like! We have problems, but it’s…
