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How Trauma Can Generate Intrusive Revenge Fantasies

I keep having violent thoughts about hurting the person who hurt me and it scares me because I am not a violent person

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche attempts to restore a sense of power and agency through imaginary scenarios that reverse the original position of helplessness.

Ideas that help explain it
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