1719 || shame spirals
Sometimes, "“I feel shame” comes to mean “I am shameful, deficient in some vital way as a human being.” Shame is no longer one feeling among many, but comes to constitute the core of oneself. Internalized shame creates a frozen state of being. Shame is no longer an emotional signal that comes and goes. It is a deep, abiding, all-pervasive sense of being defective as a person.
This core of defectiveness forms the foundation around which other feelings about the self will be experienced.
Gradually, over a period of time, this frozen feeling of belief recedes from consciousness. In this way…
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