There are, sadly, no shortage of parallel situations. I have already alluded to the closet (LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered). Many of us have skeletons of one sort or another in the closet or aspects of ourselves that we would prefer other people didn't know about us. In this case, we are talking about aspects of ourselves that we don't want to know about, period! We would perhaps even prefer that someone else know to actually admitting it to ourselves! Childhood sexual abuse, repressed memories, and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) are probably the most obvious parallels, although I'm sure you can suggest others. In each case, there is damage caused to the overall personality or identity through the attempt to avoid some essential aspect or knowledge of the self. The damage caused in these types of situations is fairly well documented in the psychological, psychiatric, and self-help literature. There is not reason to suspect that the damage caused by trying to NOT be psychic when you are would be any less, and there is intuitive justification to suspect it may be actually greater.
Here is a parable for you, to illustrate another reason why it can be important to know whether or not you are psychic. I lived in a large metropolitan area for a while. I found that residents of the city believed that their neighborhood was safe, and it was the rest of the city that was dangerous. Feeling safe in their own neighborhood, people often took risks that they would not take elsewhere, consequently putting themselves at HIGHER risk in their own neighborhood, because they refused to see that they were in danger there. If you refuse to see the danger, you can't protect yourself, and must consequently be a victim. With psychic abilities, you may as easily find that you are unwittingly a perpetrator. Either way, before you con protect yourself or others, you must first admit that to be psychic is at least a possibility, and that learning how to defend yourself is a topic worth exploration.
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