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<blockquote data-quote="JayJaySattva" data-source="post: 49271" data-attributes="member: 147">There is no &quot;Whitepill&quot; to be found here. Everything that I wrote about above? Bullshit. If so, it should make you all be more pessimistic because our lives are constanly hanging from a thread stretched over the abyss although I guess this is pretty evident for you all by now. Identity is a fragile construct. Pain is a mechanism that encourages the emergence of mental narratives with the sole purpose of providing an explanation for why something is happening in relation to the past, and as such, it is what gives rise to neurosis purely propagated by thought. Therefore, personal history is an empty construct because it depends on pure interpretations given to memories, where interpretations form the so-called “personal narrative” that revolves around an “I.”This was a psychological death, a mourning of the person I used to be before the illness struck. I think that happened was that two months ago I was still operating on the old psychological structure of the person I used to be four years ago. So given that I had changed a fucking lot psychologically, and that there was no way for the mind to connect who I used to be to who I am now, maybe there was this realization that the person I think I was is already dead. I m already operating under a new psychological structure (beliefs, experiences, and so on) completely different from the one I had four years ago.Can you even say a optimistic thing about this?Most people have the opportunity to enjoy a constant sense of self... but those struck by tragedy and pain, I don&#039;t think so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JayJaySattva, post: 49271, member: 147"] [JUSTIFY]There is no "Whitepill" to be found here. Everything that I wrote about above? Bullshit. If so, it should make you all be more pessimistic because our lives are constanly hanging from a thread stretched over the abyss although I guess this is pretty evident for you all by now. Identity is a fragile construct. Pain is a mechanism that encourages the emergence of mental narratives with the sole purpose of providing an explanation for why something is happening in relation to the past, and as such, it is what gives rise to neurosis purely propagated by thought. Therefore, personal history is an empty construct because it depends on pure interpretations given to memories, where interpretations form the so-called “personal narrative” that revolves around an “I.”[/JUSTIFY] This was a psychological death, a mourning of the person I used to be before the illness struck. I think that happened was that two months ago I was still operating on the old psychological structure of the person I used to be four years ago. So given that I had changed a fucking lot psychologically, and that there was no way for the mind to connect who I used to be to who I am now, maybe there was this realization that the person I think I was is already dead. I m already operating under a new psychological structure (beliefs, experiences, and so on) completely different from the one I had four years ago. Can you even say a optimistic thing about this? Most people have the opportunity to enjoy a constant sense of self... but those struck by tragedy and pain, I don't think so. [/QUOTE]

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