A positive change of heart story taken from LifeNews.com;
After trying to kill myself to escape the overwhelming guilt after my
abortion, I emerged from my month spent in an adolescent psychiatric
unit with an incongruous newly-found zeal for abortion rights.
Within weeks of my discharge from the psych unit, I found myself on a bus to Washington, D.C. to march for abortion rights
and soon after I began volunteering as an escort for a first-trimester
abortion clinic. An advanced degree in psychology isn’t necessary to see
that I was plainly trying to assuage my guilt (and protect my delicate
and damaged psyche) by assuming the precise opposite of what I truly
believed. Freud called this reaction formation, one of many coping strategies he dubbed defense mechanisms.
I certainly took reaction formation to the extreme by espousing the
most diametrically opposed position of my innermost heart when I
accepted the offer of a job at an abortion clinic.
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