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My Discovery of a New Psychology Part 3
I Had a Psychological Death
It almost became a physical death. I had no background to understand what was happening. My world was shrinking as PTSD, night terrors, and panic attacks became my new world. It took 4 years to come out the other side of this.
There are many points of interest in this journey. One such moment was seeing how we think of issues as being something that a band-aid will take care of.
“I will wait. It will heal and I will be fine”.
For myself and 2 years into this, I began to realize it wasn’t going away and you start to project into the future what your life might look like based on the day you were currently having. I was struggling with loss of hope and deep shock. You could say I was depressed, but it was different. I was overwhelmed and seeing before me a loss of life, loss of opportunity, and long-term pain and illness.
I used to watch ant lions in South Africa. Tiny little beings that would create a funnel in the sand and they waited at the bottom for the ants to fall in. When an ant fell in, the ant attempted to scrabble up the sides, pushing sand to the bottom. The little ant lions would flick sand up the sides of the funnel so the ant would…
