i have lately trended towards using "trauma" for a somewhat wider collection of things than is the norm but i mean small-t trauma in more or less the typical sense here, i was feeling socially rejected at a workshop and unearthed a direct connection to feeling unloved by my dad
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other guys: afraid of expressing their feelings me: luv 2 express feelings as long as they're cool and dramatic like "my father never loved me" and not small and petty like "i judge people for liking puns"
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I love crying that cracks all the way through, unfortunately it’s a very rare event for me
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i learned a process from
@DougTataryn that among other things facilitates cracked-open crying - did it 4 times in 4 days at his workshop which was incredible. any interest in trying it out? can do it via video chat - 4 more replies
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or you're just in a phase
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*lights cigarette* life is just a phase
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Seems like root cause is a more general processing defect - generating more karma from each event than typical, such that it only gets cleared by condensing & attaching to these dramatic narrative chunks. The narratives themselves are unlikely causal
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i like this alternative hypothesis but i think i have real reasons for believing they're causal
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I recentlyish (a few months ago) had a thought process that went along the lines of "If (this experience that I had) counts as trauma then who *isn't* traumatised? ... ... Oh. Hmm."
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Recommended here: Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life. Also—check out
@DougTataryn’s work (he even somehow jumped in your mentions, which is cool). - 2 more replies
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