This is your biggest psychological blind spot by Dr Kelly Flanagan and I'm your narrator

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of Dr Kelly Flanagan.com.

The car almost blindsides me. I'm exiting the interstate on the way to my office,

having just passed through one of two adjacent toll lanes

which are merging back into one lane when someone who

sped through their lane enters my blind spot.

His horn alerts me to the danger.

Disaster averted. Six hours later, during our weekly staff meeting it's my turn to share

about the ebbs and flows of my career, why I got interested in psychology and why those interests have shifted and evolved.

I'm explaining the experiences that shaped each of my significant career decisions

when someone asks for the why behind the why, the common denominator, the theme, I struggle to come up with an answer.

Then another six hours later, I'm on my way home passing through the toll booths again

merging back onto the interstate when I remember my near-miss from earlier in the day.

Blind spots. That's my why behind every other why. I became enthralled with psychology when I first learned in a high school psychology class about multiple personality disorder, as it was called at the time.

Essentially, one of the ways we all cope with emotional pain is to segregate it from our consciousness,

to tuck it away into some forgotten place within us, to keep it outside of our story and our sense of self.

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