What are we talking about here, going crazy or going crazy? There are biochemical kinds of going crazy and there's the kind of going crazy when burried emotional problems that have been suppressed start to surface and can't be kept down. This is a going crazy characterized by depression which is the supression of anger accopained by occassional bouts of seemingly irrational rage. In a theraputic setting, the violent and full expression of rage without acting out will eventually lead into some explosive sadness. The rage is the protective mechanism that is there to keep that sadness at bay. Once the sadness can be entered into and allowed to ramp up, it will become powerful enough to equal, become, a past event where that feeling originated or is in the chain of origin. The moment before recognition can be like dying because what is about to be experienced was a death, a psychic death where that aspect of a person got burried. It is like going crazy because it is unbelievable. The good news, of course, is that by going crazy in this way, one recovers bit by bit, pieces of oneself.
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