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The difference is between behaviour and personality. Behaviours can change but personality tends to fix.

Msd try this:
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 12, Number 2, Pages 389-411, June 1989. The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma Re-enactment, Revictimization, and Masochism Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD*

Google: compulsion to repeat pdf.

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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose.
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