Anal Tears and Anal Fissures

A fissure is a tear — a rupture of tissue at a place that should be soft and flexible. When the anus tears, your body is showing you something painful: you are so cramped, so closed off, so rigid that the tissue gives way. It breaks because it cannot yield. It tears because you cannot open.

Medically an anal fissure arises from stool that is too hard or from excessive straining. The psychosomatic image is identical: you press, you force, you hold yourself in a tight grip — and at the place designed for soft opening, a wound forms.

Anal tears are the signal of a person who injures themselves because they do not allow themselves to be soft.