Therapy, psychedelics, raves with lots of MDMA
I’ve heard of people who suffered brain damage gaining new abilities they didn’t have before. Like a dude fell from something, cracked his head on the pavement, fell into a coma, and when he woke up he could play piano even though he never did before.
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.
It could be if you go to therapy.
Resilience factors. Things like one supportive trusted adult, a good safe space, an interest that you can engage, these sorts of things can act to mitigate some of the harms of adverse childhood experiences.
They might call that an epiphany?
Doctor Hiriluk was on to something.
That’s how trauma is on Opposite Day!
That’s called psychedelic drugs.
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.
I think that’s just sex.
Absolute chad gets down voted by sexless virgins
So, LSD?
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!
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
