jamie church
@jemecherche · 4:56
Dystopia during Dissociation? Why did I watch more drama and horror during the most difficult year of my life?
I wonder how long I've been in survival mode because I realized that this is me coming out of survival mode. Is the fact that I'm inwardly unclenching? Is that what's allowing me to relax again? It's weird because you would think during a time of great stress and tumult and unhappiness and grieving, and that would be when I'd want to watch something anodyme, something easy, something facile, something calming
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 1:41
I'm kind of going through something similar where it's like if you've lived a dramatic situation and there is some sort of calm, your nervous system is still programmed for the past drama. So sometimes adjusting and learning unlearning a way of living is very hard. And you'll have your ups and downs of being in a calm state not being comfortable with that, because, hey, I've never lived in a calm state
jamie church
@jemecherche · 0:38
You know, that actually makes a lot of sense. If my nervous system is already all jacked up and I'm trying to watch something like the Great British Baking Show, my nervous system is once none of it. So that would make a lot of sense. And that would also explain why it was such an unutterable relief to want to watch something like that again. It's been a long time, so yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. And thank you for your response