05.22.2014 - By Dr Judy WTF
When the pain of mother infant disconnect is allowed to go untreated, defense mechanisms kick in. These defense mechanisms defend against the original wound and can take many shapes and sizes. For example, overeating, smoking, alcohol/drug abuse, porn, shopping, and even OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) can act as defense mechanisms against human pain and suffering.Although some defense mechanisms are healthy such as exercise, eating right, and good boundaries to keep out the bad, many defense mechanisms end up taking from you more than protecting you in the long run. Eating you from the inside out, they trap you into a dungeon of limitations and stunt your growth. By cleaning out the original wound, we can then more comfortably let go of these defense mechanisms as we find that we have nothing to defend against in the here and now. Updating old defenses and seeing that the threat is no longer there is a big part of the healing process. Today we Shrunk the Tune: Savoy Truffles (sp?) by the Beatles.