Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Stephen Richards
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Freud said the following about the power of repetition: “Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.”

Source: The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You Feel Tomorrow

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