I have come to terms with the fact that we never fully “get over” traumatic stuff that happens to us in either childhood or adulthood. It would be just as hazardous to deny it affects us as it would be to allow it to define us.
As we grow we learn tools, whether healthy or unhealthy, to fight back the demons that sometimes attack – day or night; alone or in a crowd, but that doesn’t erase the fact that the demons do in fact come back.
I am leery of anyone who claims to have no demons from their past, chances are they’re surrounded and don’t even know it.
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