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They say it has no harmful effects. And Roe v. Wade was based on a lie. That Roe (Norma McCorvey) had concocted because she felt she need an illegal abortion. She concocted a story that she had been raped, and the attorney’s told her she didn’t even need to be present in the court proceedings.
As she said, “My experience with pro-abortion leaders is that they are snobs. They claim that they care about women and their rights but, in my experience, they care for nothing, not even themselves in a way,” to WorldNetDaily. She ended up not even having a single abortion, but was driven to the point of attempted suicide because of her experiences.
I have known women who completely repressed many details of the whole abortion experience (the name of the man who fathered the baby, the emotional reaction, the experiences in the clinic and so forth). As a result of the repression and unresolved feelings, there may be a number of consequences (depression, strong feelings of guilt, psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety). Even with women who consciously believe it must have had little effect on them because they “never think about it.” But there is always an instant reaction when abortion comes up in conversation, secretiveness, and blocking from awareness. One woman referred to ”it” as she called it in her mind. Eventually, she expressed what she really thought, “I killed a baby,” and this was extremely difficult and painful for her. It was how she felt deep down, but could never express. What they don’t tell you is that women who have an abortion always think about what they would have named the baby. A woman might think of a name that she would have given the baby and then end up marrying a man with that same name. Or, she might have a child later and name that child after the aborted child. These types of things happen with an unconscious wish to reverse what had taken place. One guy I knew felt tremendously guilty for years for his role in helping his girlfriend get an abortion.
DO NOT believe the rhetoric about abortion. It has longstanding negative effects on the men and women involved. If you don’t believe you can raise the child, please put them up for adoption. You will be much better off in terms of your mental health in the long run.
A common fear of people who have anxiety is that they will “go crazy.” They’ll be permanently crazy and locked up in a psych ward for the rest of their lives. The truth is, that people who have such fears, do NOT actually ever “go crazy.” People who, “lose their minds,” in the schizophrenic sense, do not worry about going crazy. They talk about that colony of martians that has taken up home in their armpit, as my mentor likes to say. So, if your worried about going crazy, you most likely just have anxiety. And anxiety cannot harm you permanently in any way. This is a hard thing for people with anxiety to learn. Once they learn it, they can realize that they have control, and can put themselves more freely in situations that provoke their anxiety. They can begin to take control, and fight against their anxiety. Avoidance of feared situations, is actually what increases, and maintains anxiety. If you repeatedly expose yourself to the situation that causes anxiety, and you make that choice to do so, your anxiety will decrease. You may have to start out with a situation that provokes a moderate amount of anxiety. After you master this situation, it will be easier for you to tackle more difficult situations. If you can’t do this on your own, you can enlist the help of a trained psychologist to help you do so. With my approach, I like to find out what purpose the anxiety serves before working on removing it. That way, you can work on replacing the purpose the anxiety serves with a better option. A way of coping or adequately dealing with the unconscious aspect of the purpose the anxiety serves.
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