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When anger feels like your only protection

My therapist wants me to do EMDR for my childhood trauma but I am scared that if I let go of my anger I will have nothing left to protect me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Rage can become so central to your identity that healing feels like losing yourself.

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