My hearth death experience was like this, but I had to process it for ten years before I could really reflect on it.
Hearth death? What this?
Trauma backwards is Amuart
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
It exists.
Yeah, it’s called living the good life and is rare as rocks in horse manure.
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.
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.
TIL. Thanks!
Isn’t that what Mushrooms is like?
Not always, bad trips can and do happen and then you end up with even more trauma :/
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
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
Therapy exists and can come pretty close, especially when it provides the key to the aha moment to understand the original trauma was beginning part of the reverse trauma.
It’s called heroine and it’ll leave you chasing that first high forever.
Like this:
