Two more cents from me. It's our guilt or conscious that helps us draw a line in the sand between our "dark thoughts" and our actions. The difference between codependents' "dark thoughts" and sociopaths' thoughts is our ability to have guilt or conscious.
Second, be careful in therapy talking about our "dark thoughts". During my last therapy session I stated I have no problems that arsenic couldn't cure. Thank God my therapist and I have known each other for over twenty years because he informed me he would be obligated under law to report my comment to the authoritives if he hadn't known me.
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Only God can turn a mess into a message!