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 | Psychic reinjury | Metacognitive frustration | "Tell me, dammit! Tell me what you know! I sick to death of being a goddamn amnesiac!" | The self who remembers shrinks away in mortal terror from the self who demands to know. |
 | Fetishization | Sexual arousal | "You were violated? Your innocence was stolen from you? That's hot, tell me more. It was fun, wasn't it? You liked it, didn't you? You deserved it for being cute." | In order to preserve the arousal, the self who is deeply pained by these cruel thoughts cannot be the same self who gets off on thinking them. |
+| Sociocognitive perturbation | Misdirected desire to heal | "Hey. Are you still in there? Everything okay?" | The point is to stay connected to the self to whom the message is directed, but it could have the opposite effect if they were already integrating and I didn't realize it. |
 All of these are ways of "stepping outside myself to think." Whether it's "hating myself," or "figuring myself out," or "exploiting myself," or "putting myself on a pedestal," or "expressing myself," the essential problem that keeps happening over and over and over again is that I keep //stepping outside myself,// creating a self who stepped outside and leaving behind a self who was stepped out of.