| Have you read Donna Tartt's first novel "The secret history?". In this novel, the narrator says:
"I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell."
This is of course an authors way of expressing it in a literary way and a way that is aimed at creating tension and interest for the story that is to come, but to me, it is also a good description of the destructive power of occupation with things that people have not managed to work through properly and leave behind.
For the vast majority of people, guilt, shame, sorrow, trauma, severe emotional pain and/or stress, everything, is much easier to cope with and work through if you have a good social network. If you have to express your feelings or tell your "secrets" in a way that does not even include communication, your social support must be very, very insufficient.
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