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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink
The grinding to the point of your teeth breaking might be signifying intense anger or fear or both as a child. But the ability not to open your mouth comes from either not allowing to be heard as child or the fear of not eating or having enough to eat as a child or both. Did you grow up in very humble circumstances with parents that did not allow you to speak your mind/heart ? With your pessimism being an issue I'm guessing as a child anything potentially positive that was in reach for you more often than not never occurred so why bother setting yourself up emotionally only to be let down because one or both parents were consistently negative all the time? Did your parents ever divorce ? You struggle with self-worth ? And if so, in your mind that any self-worth MUST BE EARNED(or attained) and there is no such thing as value for the sake of value because it must be earned?(this is the dysfunctional message you fight in your head?)
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That's a pretty wide net.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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