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Suicidal Self Rejection from Feeling Unwanted at Birth
By Stephen Proskauer MD | October 1, 2009
Clea, a young woman who was the second-born of twins, recalled her father’s disappointment because she wasn’t a boy like the first twin. Clea had also taken on her mother’s anxiety about displeasing her father. Clea’s adult feelings of worthlessness and self-rejection associated with being female as well as her compulsive need to please men were strongly connected with this birth experience.
Clea’s respiratory distress at birth was a suicidal response to her negative reception in the delivery room: “If they don’t want me, why bother to breathe?” Newborn and infant respiratory problems (and perhaps many unexplained infant deaths) may reflect the baby’s sensitivity to and desperate need to escape from the negativity and emotional pain of caretakers, even if this pain has nothing to do with the infant.
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Chapter 2 The Wheel of Birth and Death
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Topics: Birth, Consciousness, Disorders, Dissociation, Enlightenment, Karmic Therapy, Prenatal Memory |