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    Joined dxpnet on August 22, 2007.
    P is right. And to answer your question I would have to say yes. For me it's not necessarily a shield... I can just cut off my feelings completly really easy. For instance... I can be madly in love with someone... and they could do something very small... yet mean so much to me.... and hurt me without unintentionally. Immediately my romantic love will vanish. And it's very hard to get it back. We tend to distance ourselves from unpleasant thoughts and feelings. That seems almost contradictory to our natural willingness to place ourselves in other peoples thoughts but it tends to be a defense mechanism. And that does feel like a shield.
    The reason I don't say shield is because in my experience I don't put a wall up... I completely remove myself from the situation.. no need for a shield if I never talk to them again right? Tongue
    -J