{"id":339,"date":"2010-04-27T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2013-09-14T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T19:28:14","slug":"more-from-bruce-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"More from Bruce Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMany self-help pundits preach that we all have choice.\u00a0 This is essentially true, but for the unhealed it can be a damaging message.\u00a0 At some level, they know they should have choice, but they don\u2019t feel like they do.\u00a0 This can move them into deeper shame: \u201cIf I believe that I should have choice, and the experts are scolding me because I\u2019m not making healthy choices, then I must be really worthless.\u201d
\n\u201c…\u00a0 I am impressed by people dominated by overwhelming emotional pain who are able to do or think anything<\/em> that is not destructive.\u00a0 It takes a great deal of energy.\u201d pp70-71\u00a0\u00a0 (Author’s italics)<\/p>\n

I remember one time, I was in a PTSD state of hypervigilance, and a woman told me “Fear is a choice”.\u00a0 It really freaked me out, made everything worse.\u00a0 It was at least a year before I could find an answer.\u00a0 Fear may be a choice, if you’re scaring yourself by telling yourself scary stories.\u00a0 Fear is not a choice, if you just missed hitting another car.\u00a0 Once fear has been triggered, your only choice is what to do with it.<\/p>\n

I also have struggled, while triggered into despair or terror, to act with compassion, not defensiveness, with truth not denial.\u00a0 I am often exhausted, and Levine comforts me by saying my struggle, though invisible, is real work.<\/p>\n

Surviving America\u2019s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMany self-help pundits preach that we all have choice.\u00a0 This is essentially true, but for the unhealed it can be a damaging message.\u00a0 At some level, they know they should have choice, but they don\u2019t feel like they do.\u00a0 This … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-interesting-link","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}