The last thing that most of us would expect, is to find ourselves justifying the actions of people who held us hostage, or who had abused us in some other way. Especially if we had been in fear of our lives.
Yet this is precisely what happened over five days in August 1973.
”The brain secretes thoughts like the liver secretes bile”
Pierre Cabanis.
Where rumination is concerned this quote is doubly apposite. Not only do thoughts keep on coming but they also tend to be full of vitriol and bile against ourselves, against the way we have behaved in the past and might behave in the future, and to a lesser extent against other people.
Rumination is not about the present.
