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After Psychotherapy

Insights from 30+ years in the profession

Tag: unbearable emotion

The Evacuation of Pain

Nearly four years ago, not long after I first launched this site, I wrote about a client who coped with unbearable feelings via her eating disorder: when she could no longer endure a painful emotional state, she would binge and then purge in an attempt to evacuate it. I discussed this as a form of… Continue reading The Evacuation of Pain

Published August 20, 2014
Categorized as Defense Mechanisms, Unbearable Emotion Tagged unbearable emotion
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