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Everyone is like “drugs” but I’m like “seeing my wife walk down the aisle nearly destroyed me.”
I don’t want kids but for some holding their newborn is one of the happiest moments of their life.
Watching our kitten grow up has been a constant source of joy for us.
There are moments in life that stick with you like PTSD, but instead they’re positive memories. They’re just rare, like traumatic events.
They might call that an epiphany?
That’s how trauma is on Opposite Day!
I think that’s just sex.
Absolute chad gets down voted by sexless virgins
Doctor Hiriluk was on to something.
That’s called psychedelic drugs.
If you’re the thoughtful type, anyways. If you’re not, it might make you even more uncomfortable because some realizations from your subconscious might still bubble up and make it harder to hold on to the lies that made things more comfortable and without the ability to process it into a new normal (or see that new information doesn’t negate everything that happened before, even if it gives new understanding or disproves a previous understanding).
In French we say “avoir une révélation”. When something change completely the way you see regality. (As trauma does in a negative way)
Translating into “getting a revelation” is not possible, cause the meaning used in French is :
An unexpected fact that we suddenly learn, or one that, once known, explains many others.
And it doesn’t seem that word have this meaning in English.
Literally what healing and therapy is. At least for me with cptsd, every breakthrough comes with a mood boost for a day or two. That specific trauma hurts a lot less from then on then eventually it stops being triggered all together.
I remember my last severe panic attack. I also have c-ptsd, and after decades of being poor, over worked, and re traumatized a couple times, I found myself living with my now husband, not working as a choice (so no finacial stress, and in therapy. I was safe. I was just begining therapy, but one day having a really hard time in my head that devolved into… a messy, aweful panic attack. I was alone, crying like a sob, and realized, “Im safe, I have people who love me, and no one will hurt me here”. I repeated this a few times, well, many times, and after a few minutes, calmed down and regulated.
Ill never forget it. it’s about 6 years later, and feeling healed is so beautiful.
That was having my first child for me
So, LSD?
Trauma backwards is Amuart
Ironically this exists:
That… doesn’t describe what is being talked about, though. The post discusses a moment of such positivity it radiates out into the rest of your life, much like trauma does from a traumatic event. Your wiki describes a positive psychological change after a period of intense trauma.
Indeed, it is not what OP described.
Post-traumatic growth is not
- positivity -> positivity
nor
- negativity -> negativity
but rather
- negativity -> positivity.
Ironic, isn’t it? How can positivity come out of negativity?
positivity does not come out of negativity. it comes out of yourself.
I agree. My characterization is a simple abstraction. We can, like you mention, be more precise about the mechanisms through which post-traumatic growth comes about.
TIL. Thanks!
My immediate thought was the core memory concept from ‘Inside Out’*.
Trauma can be a core memory, but so can a moment of positivity. I can think of a few in my life, though they tend to be capstones on a series of moments rather than a single moment.
The Bo Burnham special? Oh yeah the side-scroller
Lol, whoops. Fixed
Isn’t that what Mushrooms is like?
That was my immediate thought too. They’ve helped me get through so much shit, as well as if things are going well already just being a bonus positive experience for me. One of my exes used them to successfully start recovery from a bunch of childhood trauma (still needed therapy and all that but the mushies got them to a place they were able to start the full journey). They really are like magic
Mushrooms unlocked my anxiety disorder and ruined my early 20s. But yeah, lots of people report positive results.
Not always, bad trips can and do happen and then you end up with even more trauma :/
For me it was cocaine
For me it was a festival with abundance of extacy. I realized that the loop of being kind and positive feeds back into my own feel-good systems very directly. I mean I knew it before, but it became so clear that it helped me become a better person.
Also acid taught me not to value shallow things so much.
Doesn’t coke just leave you in a high chasing loop?
Did not. I realized that I can be much more energetic than I am. It became clear that this state is reachable without drugs too. Was eye opening to me and kinda helped me not to dive deep into a rabbit hole of another depressive episode.
I will never take coke again. Unless it is with Johnny Depp of course
I host and do basic training for guide dog puppies, generally labradors. Part of the process is getting them used to crowds, shopping centers, public transport, etc. Every day they make several people have a better day. The wake of smiles and warm fuzzy feelings they leave behind is beautiful.
The one I have right now, a yellow lab, has character, but is an absolute dear. She actively seeks people to be happy with them.
Reminds me of this study. Although being more productive and “changes you for the better” are different things.
