oh I agree, at least I have a complicated take in that direction uh
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Replying to @literalbanana @fire__exit
(evidence is stronger that bad things have real & lasting hedonic effects than good things though)
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Replying to @literalbanana @fire__exit
try this one on: extremely good things are exactly as traumatic in a systemic sense as extremely bad things and we have absolutely no way to contextualize or process that
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wut? need example
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think of a time something ridiculously good happened to you, or ideally have something ridiculously good happen to you because memory is useless check off the list of effects of psychological trauma; intrusive memories, confusion, distraction, withdrawal, mood swings
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ok, I see what you mean. trauma is the wrong word though. need a more neutral term for something with heavy psychological impact.
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...OR IS IT
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
i'm extremely serious despite being me, the specific claim i'm making is that if we say "psychological trauma" because extremely -hedonic events tear through your psyche like a bullet through muscle, well, extremely +hedonic ones do the exact same thing
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framing psychically potent experiences as +/- trauma is obfuscatory imo. it focuses attention on the disturbance or disruption (side effects) and not the experience itself (primary effects).
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my correlary claim is that it's lumping these things as disjoint categories that's obfuscatory, erasing what they have in common and leaving people with no cognitive handles to deal with what's going on with them
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just try talking about how fucked up you are because something really good happened to you
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