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In your opinion can time really heal all wounds?

Asked by daytonamisticrip (4859points) September 1st, 2010

Time can heal physical wounds, but how long does it take to heal emotional wounds? Are some to deep to heal?

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iamthemob's avatar

It takes time, sure. But time alone? No. There’s some work to be done by all parties to the harm.

marinelife's avatar

What time does is blunt the pain. It also provides perspective. Both can have the effect of “healing” the wounds, although some pain never goes away.

gravity's avatar

Some need therapy… which just means talking about it really. Get it out, process it, move on.

shego's avatar

I don’t think that any emotional wounds are too deep to ever heal. It just depends on if the person is ready to let go. But it does take time, and every person is different.

curlyz's avatar

yes, it can…even though, it could take a very long time in some cases, but still it will heal it…you just have to believe it.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

I think time can heal all wounds. The victim has to heal, and the offender also has to heal. The offender needs to learn what he/she did was wrong. The offender has to want forgiveness and work for it. The victim has to be willing to forgive. Time will heal the wounds if handled correctly, but there will always be a scar and a reminder.

Austinlad's avatar

Not all wounds, but it definitely mutes the pain of many of them.

skfinkel's avatar

I think it depends on the kind of emotional wound you are talking about. The loss of a beloved person? in time, the wound heals, although it is always a scar, that person is always missed, always loved, but the pain of the wound gets better. Psychological wounds, being abused for example, might be in a different category—since that would require forgiveness as well, and that requires a different kind of work.

Ben_Dover's avatar

Not only can, but it also wounds all heals!

Blondesjon's avatar

It really does and that is the shitty part.

When the wound is raw and new you convince yourself that there is no way you will ever get over this. There is no way this will ever go away. This pain I feel is special and different from everyone else’s.

Then Time comes along, crushing everything old to make way for the new, and you are forced to accept that you aren’t special. You are forced to accept that your pain is just like everyone else’s because you don’t think about it as much, it doesn’t hurt as much anymore, and while you were suffering the rest of the world continued on, business as usual.

Time does heal all wounds but, like any healed wound, there is always a scar.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

Your reasoning and redirection will heal wounds but time will lessen the sting of them.

mollydrew's avatar

There are some wounds that never heal; the loss of a child or a betrayal by a loved one. This type wound never heals and is always with you. “Regular” wounds, yes, with time you heal, you forgive and eventually forget.

jazmina88's avatar

No…..some people need to make amends to heal some wounds.

Coloma's avatar

As mentioned yes, with the ‘work’ involved to see clearly, the dynamics of all parties or situations.

Time also wounds all heels.

Karma will always balance the scales of cosmic justice.

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