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[quote=Anonymous]According to my therapist, an emotionally mature and healed person would have enough distance from it to be able to acknowledge how terrible it was and to accept appropriate sympathy. It should not make you break down or anything like that, but no emotion isn't good either. In other words, you should be able to engage it and feel the pain of it, but that pain should not drive your life choices or moods now. In your shoes, I'd be asking more questions. Some people who have experienced trauma will downplay it because they don't want to appear whiny or wounded and because they don't want that trauma to be the lens through which other people see them. But these are still the facts of this person's life and when you are close enough, it should be something they can talk about openly.[/quote]
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