What Psychologist Viktor Frankl Pointed Out: Finding Meaning in Suffering
4月 26, 2026菅原隆志36 min read
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This is a continuation of the previous article. I already understand and know myself, but I’m asking ChatGPT questions and posting them as an article so I can offer them to readers as learning material. I hope you can use what’s below for your own learning. I’ll mark the important parts with highlights.
Why do I sometimes develop the symptoms mentioned above, and why can they also be triggered through conversations with unrelated people? Please explain the process correctly as well.
I will explain in detail, from psychological and neuroscientific perspectives, why symptoms such as the strong pain and sense of rejection caused by conversation can also occur through conversations with other people who have nothing to do with the past abusers.
Below, I will carefully explain the process by which the symptoms occur and the reasons behind them.
[1] The underlying reason the symptoms occur: conditioning and traumatic memory
Psychologically, your symptoms are mainly caused by a “trauma response” or “conditioning.” Specifically,
“Words” and “conversation” themselves have been conditioned as traumatic stimuli.
In the brain, memories of past hurtful situations and present, similar stimuli are unconsciously linked, and past emotions anddefensive reactionsare triggered.
That is the mechanism at work.
[2] Why pain occurs even in conversations with unrelated people: mistaken associations in the brain
Long-term psychological abuse in a past traumatic environment—gaslighting, lies, false accusations, betrayal—has beenstored in the brain as powerful emotional memory. This emotional memory is stored through a mechanism separate from verbalized or conscious memory, and it has the following characteristics.
Words themselves have been conditioned as “danger signals.”
Certain words, ways of speaking, tones, facial expressions, or subtle negative nuances,even slight triggerscan automatically and instantaneously reproduce the intense anxiety, fear, and sense of rejection from the past.
Even stimuli so subtle that they are not consciously noticed are recognized by your brain as “danger signals.”
As a result, “conversation with other people in the present” becomes unconsciously linked with traumatic conversations from the past (verbal abuse), causing a strong rejection response.
Listen carefully: the part about “stored in the brain as powerful emotional memory.” In other words, you should turn that around. What is stored there is an unresolved issue. So what happens if you resolve it? Yes—you become stronger. Because you have trauma, even small things can trigger you. So what? You come to understand. And your ability to cope improves. See? In other words, because you have trauma, you can grow.
In fact, back then I told the other person that I had trauma and asked them to stop. If the other person had been a man, I probably would have taken him down then and there, but the other person was a woman. And when I explained the trauma, she repeatedly and persistently triggered it, and I developed symptoms. Even when I told her to stop, she kept doing it. There was a time when my daily life was threatened. But because of thismalicious abuser who exploited my trauma, I learned from it as well, and now I have the knowledge and coping skills to deal with people like them.
Conversation
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読んだだけで終わらせないでください。
感じたことを、コメント・発信・メモなど、何かの形で外に出してみてください。
反応した瞬間から、変化は始まります。
この場所に、最初の感想や気づきをそっと残せます。