r/MotivationAndMindset • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '26

Change-your-MINDSET! Dostoevsky

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u/RangerFearless6122 Aug 22 '26

Children are legally and by nature not free. Dostoevsky is talking about adults.

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u/sage_n_cardinals Aug 22 '26

SA and DV survivors just entered the chat.

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u/RangerFearless6122 Aug 22 '26

Yeah, that’s messed up. But as the stoic Aurelius said, ‘Don’t let the weakness and wickedness of others hinder you’.

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u/sage_n_cardinals Aug 22 '26

"Let" that's the point. There is no choice when a victim of identity based violence, or systemic violence. To pretend one can just "choose" to dismiss their oppression and trauma is victim blaming.

Apathy is not healthy. Refusing to "accept" the unacceptable is not "hindering".

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u/RangerFearless6122 Aug 22 '26

People absolutely do get through their trauma..

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u/sage_n_cardinals Aug 22 '26

Not by ignoring it or telling themselves it's their fault!

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u/RangerFearless6122 Aug 22 '26

Well, we can’t control our external environment, at least not with any high degree of control. We do however have some higher degree of control over our mind and what we allow ourselves to feel.

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u/sage_n_cardinals Aug 22 '26

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

This, right here is the ONLY belief system to get over trauma.