Carl Jung: You Are Not What Happened to You
Exactly. Focus on the point Adler is making here when he refers to the self being determined not by our experiences themselves, but by the meaning we give them. He is not saying that the experience of a horrible calamity or abuse during childhood or other such incidents have no influence on forming a personality; their influences are strong. But th
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I'm diagnosed schizophrenic, and the main barrier to re-entering the world after my first psychotic break was that I could no longer relate to the person I once was. My memories felt like memories of another person outside of myself, I didn't believe it was me. It was very traumatizing and I withdrew from everyone I knew and became catatonic for ov... See more
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We often promote rare behaviors to traits (“It’s just the kind of thing I do”) and promote traits to identity (“I cannot perform well under pressure. I cave.”). You are not the sum of your worst behaviors, just as you are not limited to your visible traits. Don’t enclose yourself in a false and limiting story. Who you are is not the sum of the thin
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- Reframe the way you think about identity loss.