Sometimes I wonder. I am currently trying to make some changes to improve my situation. But sometimes I have had to bury my feelings to survive. I find that I have had to behave my way out of situations and people who torment me. If I am being tormented, I try to have compassion for that person and in order to do that I have to be positive about them even when they are being mean and attacking me. Some people hear voices or have secret societies that they find they cannot escape from and I believe it is worthwhile to adapt such tolerance a strategy in order to change their relations with the tormentor who is usually trying to prove superiority for their own gain. I find the best strategy if you can’t get rid of a tormentor is to address them in a compassionate manner and in order to do that I must bury my feelings and behave myself out of the situation.

You said: “When I was in crisis, I was told by my therapist to avoid the issue of good and evil so I wouldn’t be crazy! It was true, I didn’t think she was a very good person to me when I was vulnerable. I listened to her and honored her keeping my true feelings buried. It did lead to recovery.”

Really? Keeping your true feelings buried led to recovery?

What does “recovery” mean? Normalization or coping with an intolerable situation instead of changing it?