Send the Pain Below: Why We Hide Our Trauma

In this video, I explore the deep psychological distinction between repressing trauma and the "magic trick" of the Shadow Closet.

While Chevelle’s "Send the Pain Below" captures the heavy, "suffocating" weight of active repression—where you know the pain is there but choose to bury it—the Shadow Closet is something entirely different. It is a structural blind spot where the lies we tell ourselves are so perfectly hidden that we don't even know they exist.

Join me as I discuss:

The "Visible" Burden: Why the song's version of repression leads to self-loathing because you can still "see" what you're hiding.

The Magic Trick: How the Shadow Closet hides itself from your own view, making it impossible to find until you are forced to face a "mirror."

The Mirror Revelation: That moment when you realize you are the complete opposite of who you believed yourself to be.

A Neurodivergent Perspective: How "bottom-up" processing allows some of us to see these psychological "seams" and why sharing our closets can feel like a "nuke" to others' identities.

Facing the fear of all fears often reveals that there was nothing to be scared of in the first place. Once the light hits the closet, the "suffocation" stops and the healing begins.

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