Antonia - your psychiatrist is on the money from my perpsective, as regards both dealing with our emotions and her take on OW.
Detachment from them on a day to day basis helps longer term emotional detachment, I believe. Avoidance is dangerous to our emotional health, although sometimes we have to blank out the pain But when we can face it I agree it is better to do so, and realise as in phsycial healing the pain is telling us something.
