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My dad was attacked by a homeless person and killed him in self defense. He says he sometimes sees the man in his car window. Does anyone have any similar experiances?

2007-10-01 17:41:26 · 12 answers · asked by HELLO THERE 1 in Social Science Psychology

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Killing another person always has a psychological effect on most humans without sociopathic disorders, but as the distance gets closer, the emotional burden gets much heavier. A friend of mine had the same thing happen to him, he was mugged and killed the assailant with his hands. He had a lot of troubles until he started to talk about it openly and dissolve the guilt.

Something you might say to your father to comfort him is that the other man made the decision for violence, not the other way around.

After some time for that to set in tho his wounded psyche, and the support of his family, his "encounters" should dwindle.

2007-10-01 17:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by etinarcadia 2 · 0 0

Lets just say; Even if you are missing a part of your body, you can still feel it as if it were there because it is still there in the map in the brain. Recent research has shown that the maps of the body in the brain are extremely malleable. They reorganize themselves in response to experienctial training, learning, and in the recovery from injury. This is now referred to as the plasticity of the nervous system, or neuroplasticity.
In fact, increasing evidence is suggesting that our maps of the body in the brain are extraordinarily fluid in some ways, capable of continually changing over the course of our lives, particularly in response to the activities we engage in on a regular basis over days, weeks, months, and years.

So whatever the condition that your dad finds himself in, whatever the pain and the suffering that have been carrying on, however much dispair he may be in, is that, in giving himselve over wholeheartedly to realize that this is workable.

Life responds to wise attention in remarkable ways, perhaps in part because of the deep plasticity of the nervous system.

So if your dad says he see's dead people, believe 'em.

2007-10-01 17:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by crystallamp 3 · 0 0

He shall get over it in due course of time.It's a kind of mental projection created through strong feelings /emotions and would go away slowly.Can he or you people do some thing to help anybody who was close to the man?If yes,then his image shall go away faster.

2007-10-01 17:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 0 0

I believe in ghosties and I seen dead people on occasion... if that's what you are asking.

But maybe your dad feels real guilt too. Maybe he needs therapy... or he could confess to a priest and the priest cant say anything to the cops.

2007-10-01 17:46:08 · answer #4 · answered by fantasie66 3 · 1 0

Ah hah gosht whisperers tv

2007-10-01 17:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

He should get help, deep inside he did not meant what happened. It's quite normal for this to happen when you feel remorsed of what happened.

2007-10-01 17:47:44 · answer #6 · answered by Mojitabean 4 · 0 0

Can't say that I've ever killed anyone but I'll let you know if it ever happens.

2007-10-01 17:43:30 · answer #7 · answered by mephisto8208 2 · 1 0

Post traumatic distress: your dad is bothered by this tremendous deed. That's all.

2007-10-01 19:16:57 · answer #8 · answered by LELAND 4 · 0 0

I do not have any similar stories but that is very scary.

2007-10-01 17:43:58 · answer #9 · answered by LucyLou 3 · 0 0

No, from what I know, they just die. I cut down a tree. I know how you feel.

2007-10-01 17:53:04 · answer #10 · answered by JohnValjean 1 · 0 0

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