He found that when a single cell would be stimulated, the patient would experience a past events as if they were happening live now. Everything was there, taste , touch, sight, sound, attitudes, thoughts, feelings and sequential events. Where we get in trouble is to think that what we perceive now is a real time experience. A great deal of judgement, fear , and rejection emotions come from the past and need to be exposed as such. When a patient asks me why we need to rehash these old events, when he is already depressed, I tell him that it is the same as for the bank robber Willie Sutton.
Secrets only make depression worse.
Loss Blessings may be given through pain, suffering and death. All of us experience the problem of pain. Sometimes we have experienced the childhood teaching that if you don't shape up, dad will punish you. Reality therapy as carefully as it can demands that we give up childish thoughts and grow through our pain to a mature position. Sometime this demands that we take steps that reframe our experience with adult understanding of the full data banks surrounding our pain.