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I’ve noticed when people go through very traumatic experiences (divorce, death) they sometimes experience a dramatic change in personality. It’s almost like the
by pram 7y ago
I’ve noticed when people go through very traumatic experiences (divorce, death) they sometimes experience a dramatic change in personality. It’s almost like the shock of the event kills your previous self.
This guy said he was bored of his current roles, but all said that probably wasn’t the actual issue. He was just looking for a way to cure his depression and ennui, and a change as radical as quitting his former life probably seemed appealing.
Maybe if he didn’t pick something with such a notoriously huge requirement of time he would have been better off. Like hell, even just being straight unemployed for a year and doing literally nothing might have been better. As of right now, since he’s not planning on being a practicing psychologist, it all seems like an enormous waste.
- oceanghost 7y agoThat's pretty darned normal. If it gets bad enough we call it PTSD, otherwise is a quarter or midlife crisis.
- pwinnski 7y agoDivorce is a death, or many deaths. It requires grieving and picking up the pieces of your life and putting them together to make a new life. It's often unwise to make such dramatic changes during this time, but people do it anyway.
- r00fus 7y ago> It’s almost like the shock of the event kills your previous self. This is a very profound statement and I think I may take it a bit further in a "ship of theseus" narrative: Perhaps we all are literally different people from year to year, month to month, week to week, and we just happen to remember our former selves enough to keep the ship intact? What if the trauma simply shocked us into forgetting or wanting to forget our recent past selves?