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When mental rehearsal becomes a substitute for actual relationship

I keep having the same argument with my mother in my head even though she's been dead for three years

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind continues patterns of reactivity with internalized others long after the external relationship has ended.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cognitive distortions — identification and change?”

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