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Seine these“if i chronically repress my emotional needs in order to make myself “acceptable” to other people i increase my risks of having to pay the price in the form of illness

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It’s not the external stress of war or money loss or somebody dying it is actually the internal stress of having to adjust oneself to somebody else

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Cancer and als and ms and rheumatoid arthritis and all these other conditions it seems to me happen to people who have a poor sense of themselves as independent persons

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On the emotional level that is—they can be highly accomplished in the arts or intellectually—but on an emotional level they have a poorly differentiated sense of self

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They live in reaction to others without ever really sensing who they themselves are

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What is unbalanced is the relationship so that the women are absorbing their husband’s stresses and anxieties while also having to contain their own