"If you keep pickin' at it, it'll never heal."
We've all heard that one, right? And when it comes to a physical wound, like a scab, it's true. Even when it comes to an emotional or psychic wound, it can be true.
But failing to dress and treat a physical wound – or burying and sublimating an emotional wound, instead of examining and dealing with it – can interfere with complete and proper healing, as well.
As we soberly contemplate the past five years since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been those, even in the usually sensation-exploitive media, who have felt we shouldn't look at the horrific images that bombarded us on those terrible days. Out of sensitivity for the sorrow of those who lost loved ones, they've encouraged us to trust our memories and forego replays of the planes plowing into the Twin Towers, the trapped and desperate people leaping from upper floor windows, the ghastly imploding of the buildings, all the many other horrors playing out live before our eyes.
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