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Dual View Of The Trauma, Brain Can't Decide Which

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Abrasky

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Does anyone else know anything about having an unconscious dual view of their trauma?

I realised recently I had a view that was beneath my conscious that my mother behaved the same as my attacker in my attack.(1st view). I got that view because my memory laid down wrong after my trauma due to stress and the threat of life. In essence, I couldn't tell the difference between my attacker and my mother in the trauma.

The false view didn't compute with all the other information I had on my mother.(The second view). As a result it felt like my brain kept going over these two views contantly in the form of flashbacks to work out which vastly different view was the true one.
 
It's amazing that you got to the bottom of it, it sounds so complex that if it were me, I'm not sure I'd be aware of it at all! That had to be incredibly liberating to realize. :)
 
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