Time heals all wounds or does it?

You make some very good points there and I have to agree with all of them. However, I do think time plays it's role in the matter, too. Sometimes with a pain that won't heal we will feel better after time has passed just because we have gotten used to the pain. Does that make sense?

it does heal every thing, even wounds too. it is supreme and rules the world. those who follow time it leaves them behind. try to walk with time and live with time.cheers

I think that time can heal wounds, for sure. I don't know if I would say that it heals all wounds, but it sure can heal a lot of wounds.

It does not really heal i believe..it more or less pacifies the pain down. It decreases the level of pain..and in due time you find yourself less angry, less in pain..and you know you are near forgiveness and the pain and anger is healed by you..time just helps.

I totally agree with you. If you are a person that can let things go you will heal much faster. I am one of those people that something will trigger those feelings and refresh the memories. I try to shake them, but it doesn't always work.

I believe there is a middle ground here. Time heals some wounds. Because if there is a painful event in our life, big or small, and we start to lose the memory, we will also start losing the feelings associated with it. But this varies from person to person and event to event. So I guess I believe you are 1/2 right.

Hi PQ, I think some wounds are just too deep to be healed with time. I do think that time helps us to cope better with them and over time, we don't hurt as much. Still, with some things there is always a scar. I can't remember for sure just who this quote is from, (Winston Churchill or maybe Michealangelo??) "Time heals all wounds and wounds all heals."

I think time helps. It may not heal them but it makes it easier to accept them & get over the hurt.

Literally its not the TIME that heal wounds , it is the person/concern individual. However, it takes TIME, that is why the saying goes like that.

The only way a wound can be healed is when the harmed person can figure out a way to do it. Even if a wound is healed scar tissue is always left! I was psychologically wounded when I was about 5 years old. The scar tissue remains 50 years later. I protect myself by thinking about animals and pets differently, There is more that has never been completely healed. My relationship with my family will never be the same, My relationship with men will never be the same, etc.

Hello PQ, But i think differently as time definitely heals all wounds emotional or physical.Yes it takes more time for some people to get their emotional wounds healed up and for some they get normal after lesser time.

Good question. And an intriguing one at that. I would say 9 out of 10 times it does and I guess only 1 in 10 it may not. Everything is dependent on time. National disasters happen, over time people move on. Terror strikes happen in metropolitan cities across the world, there's anxiety, commotion and resentment, again after some time, people move on. Some dastardly act of crime happens, people seethe with anger, every one talks about it and some months later, people have moved on. In personal lives too, grief strikes and well wishers converge, console, advice and after some time everyone is into their own and the one who is affected, slowly reconciles that it is futile to live in past, new events, hopes and circumstances take over and [9 out of 10] people decide they have to go with the times. The only ones, the 1 out of 10 for whom nothing else matters but the past, that they hold on to, nothing else will ever matter. Pragmatism is to move on and not resist events of present.

I too have heard of that expression but not all wounds can be healed even if you see a psychiatrist. Some things hard too much

This is a very intriguing topic and I agree with you that time doesn't really have anything to do with healing wounds. Rather, it is the person who takes action to move past the pain who ultimately heals from the initial psychological wound. With the passage of time, the person is able to see the initial situation from a different perspective and perhaps that's why the saying "time heals all wounds" exists. In my personal experience, it's been 10 years since I found out that my ex was cheating on me with a married coworker. He left me for her. It was very painful for me to get over this. But now that I look back, it took me 10 years to heal and now I am stronger than ever. It isn't really time that healed my wounds, though. It was my will and determination to move on, to get past the pain, and to live the best life that I want for myself.

I think as time goes on we forget about things how painful they are and it doesn't always hurt as badly as it was when it was fresh in our minds.

i think time has nothing to do with healing wounds, but it let us get used into it that the impact or the pain inflicting us vanished through times because we get used with this feelings. we become immune with the pain, but it's still there, and it is our personal choice whether or not we'll hang into it. happiness is a choice, they would say, true also with the pain. it is our choice to keep the pain or let go of it and used the lesson learned to better our lives in the future.

I think it is a combination of the two. I recall when I was very deeply hurt by an old boyfriend I was living with for 12 years. In the 10th year he got a woman pregnant while we were dealing with my own infertility issues. It was so very painful and for weeks I did nothing but wallow in that pain, not knowing how to make it better, not believing it would get better. I could not eat so I forced myself to eat baby food just to have enough energy to make it through work and I'd come home and crawl up in my fetal position until the next morning. One morning I woke up and I just did not feel as bad as I had been. That sick feeling in the pit of my stomach was there, but not as bad. By the end of that week I felt like I wanted to take a bite of a sandwich. In a couple of months I was almost myself again. It took about a year before I could see that baby or hear his mother's name and not get an immediate stabbing feeling. By the third year me and the mother could talk amiably with no bitter feelings. I believe time is what started the healing process because I did not do anything to try and get better. I did not know what to do. Later as i got better I think I was then able to add to my own healing process by dealing with it and ultimately getting past it.

The intensity of the pain does get reduced with time. It stays there only if one wallows in it and indulges in it making a martyr of oneself. Leave the pain alone and time will certainly help get rid of it.

Hello there! For me, time will never heal the wounds if the scar is emotional. the scar will definitely not heal if there is no apology being done. If there is no closure to anything bad being done to someone else, then it will just be there and it will linger in your mind. It may be forgotten because one has to really move on but each time you will be able to remember it then the pain will still just be there! So far I am lucky I don't have anything like this that makes me in pain emotionally.

Okay I'm honest, haven't read all the responses on this one (there were a lot). But I have read some of them, and they were really great. So sorry if I repeat anyone, please bear with me (is that the correct written phrase in english?) I totally agree with you. If you're very emotionally it may be harder for you to heal a psychological wound, than if you know some part of your brain how it works, what you should deal with and so on. I know for me it works, have been reading, I think I can start saying, several books about psychology. And please let me use the word, "time", because it will lighten up my writing (I know it's a man made thing, but it's here to stay). If I have been exposed, for something which have made a psychological "wound" it will take me some time to recover from it, also if I use the tool which I know I can, I'll just shorten the time for the recovering. And yes I believe that every damn living human being should know to this. There's so many people, crying about that and that, but really nothing is wrong, they just have to move on and if they did knew to this stuff, they easily could move on, in a shorter time. And this leads me to, why are people crying? In my world it's related to what the topic for this discussion is about. I believe that crying is for letting your feelings out, we all know that? (I have certainly been told it in my childhood). But also, is it for getting attention "Hey I have some stuff running around in my head, and I really have to discuss it with somebody", it could be. But then again some people want to be alone when they are crying. But this starts making some "attention" again, and the human being is a socially creature. Could it be related? What I'm trying to say, one great tool to help you with a psychological "wound" is talking with someone you trust and listen to you! And not to forget, is interested in you, as a person, ask into your problem. Now I could start writing about coaching... that may be another day, my lab is low on battery, and it's late in my country, goodnight and happy writing all mylotters! (Haven't read my post through for gramma failures, my lab is low on battery, really low!)