Past and present as what we think after traumas

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Something happened to you or even worse - you thought and did it by yourself. Now you are in a grieve, you have a low self esteem, you continue to think and to fall

I don’t think it’s right

There are a number of approaches to think about it

  1. You think about a self image. It wasn’t image who thought and did it - you are a matter which possesses the consciousness, you have potencies, you thoughts are born in the brain

  2. You are a flow of contents of the consciousness. At any moment you are a separate being who didn’t exist before and won’t exist after that. When you think differently it happens because of what we call the “I extension”. Your “I extension” makes you think that at every moment of the past it was you who thought and did it. But other “I extensions” are possible. Our “I extension” allow us to separate our Is

If you know other ways to deal with the traumatic experiences, please tell them

Perhaps I expressed our ideas not in the best way, let’s talk and I’ll try to say it better

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Excuse me, are you recommending that to deal with traumatic experiences we dissociate ourselves from our pasts? Seems not quite mentally healthy.