It's crazy how you have a life waiting for you and your heart stays glued somewhere in the shady yore. It feels like you are mentally exhausted. Speaking about traumatic memories is not enough, and many people think that by logic, the remembrances will stop resulting in pain. But that’s not the case. Trauma is adaptive and overrides logic. It becomes a natural mode that works on its own.
When the trauma is extreme, it usually weakens a person’s mind. That’s what went on to her. She was very difficult to me but I understood through her stories that as offensive as she was to me, it wasn’t 100th of the abuse she experienced. She was physically, mentally, and emotionally injured so horribly that she never could heal from it. Or precisely, we never encouraged her to recover, instead, we kept accusing her of her awful behavior.
If you also know somebody with a traumatic history then think about why he/ she was like that and feel kindness towards them. And that will led you to forgive them.

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