Sometimes trauma occur quietly and repetitively, like waves wearing down a rock over time. There may not be a single event you can point to, describe, and process. It may show up as a way of being — a self that was built, from the beginning, around someone else’s needs. A life organized around someone else’s reality. An inner world…
Repetition Compulsion
THE FALSE SELF IS A FAKE PERSONA dysfunctional people invent as a psychological defense mechanism against re-living adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as traumatic stress. A child’s construction of a false self is an adaptive process. Children may develop it to cope with unmet needs, especially the absence of support the child requires to differentiate themselves from their caregivers. When…