Joyful Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Is there such a thing? - by RarRar
RarRar on 4/6/2006 at 17:59
Has anybody ever seen or experienced something so beautiful that it makes them depressed? Maybe they realize that at some point we will all witness "the most beautiful thing in our lives" and after that nothing will ever be as beautiful (by definition). Everything suddenly seems drab, gray and uninteresting in comparison--even the things they once loved--and that contributes to making them more depressed? They realize that day by day their memories of the thing are slipping away a tiny bit and they become just a little desperate to cling to the full memory of it all? They feel bad that the sheer magnitude of the beautiful thing surpasses their ability to appreciate it and they struggle to examine every last aspect of it all but it all runs too deep and beyond their reach? That for days and weeks afterward, when they think about it they cry: at work, walking down the sidewalk, waiting in line at the supermarket, but they are tears of sadness not joy? They can't talk to anybody about it, ever--nobody could possibly understand and that would cheapen the thing? So they feel increasingly isolated?
Is there such a thing, I mean psychologically speaking? Supposing the person has absolutely no history of Manic Depression and the like. Anybody ever write a poem or a song about it? Did Shakespeare know about it, seeing as how he seemed to know about everything else.
Just wondering.
OnionBob on 4/6/2006 at 18:01
it happened to me after i saw this thread
doctorfrog on 4/6/2006 at 18:04
ha ha ha ha ha ha!
aw, man.
Lazarus411 on 4/6/2006 at 18:10
Yeah, it happened to me the first time I looked in the mirror. :p
RarRar on 4/6/2006 at 18:12
Well I should have known better. Here of all places I just should have known. Not two minutes after posting the jokes start up..
Oops, forgot to add ;)
Fingernail on 4/6/2006 at 18:21
that's the NUTHAUS for you I guess
oh boy
:laff:
good times :thumb:
BEAR on 4/6/2006 at 22:20
I would say it would be physiologically alot like the effects of meth amphetamine. From what I understand thats alot the same. A massive endorphin rush (probably akin to what happens when you see something incredibly beautiful), after which normal every day pleasures cant compare. I'm sure there is a medical term for this probably.
Thief13x on 4/6/2006 at 22:22
RarRar I may be the only one to seriously reply to your thread, but I assure you all that it's only a joke until you, or somone you know, has to deal with this kind of hell. Or maybe you are actually the one dealing with it, and don't want anyone to know. Either way all I wanted to say was that this does exist in a variety of forms and isn't always as black and white as you put it. There are up's and downs, it doesn't happen just once, it can happen bi annually or even bi monthly. Hehe, it is kinda funny isn't it? that six year old girl getting raped was funny too...
fett on 5/6/2006 at 03:22
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but sometimes I get incredibly depressed over things my kids do, or rather, stop doing. My 4 year old will climb up in my lap and do or say something that makes the world stop for me, then he's off again to do something else. Lately I sit there wondering if it will be the last time he ever does that, or says that, or whatever. As my kids get older, I start realizing that there will be a 'last time' for all the wonderful innocent things they do and say at this age, and yeah, it makes me horribly depressed.
