Survival feelings

Uncomfortable feelings often relate to some unpleasant event in your personal history. If you broke your leg at age six, you probably have unpleasant suppressed feelings associated with that experience.

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But remembering the event and the suppressed feelings associated with it cannot hurt you. The event is over. Not
only can the associated feelings not hurt you, they cannot be as intense as they were when your leg was actually broken, simply because it isn’t broken anymore. Obviously, any remembered pain will be less intense. Associated with the actual broken leg would be fear about how it would turn out specifically whether
you would walk again.