On: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

[LouisSayers]

I remember reading something similar about people who survived bombings in London during the war.

Apparently many of the survivors were quite content as they had somehow survived the destruction.

[Obscurity4340 → LouisSayers]

I think "meaning" plays a huge role and when you can get yourself to buy into a productive/growth mindset-type narrative, it does seem to help immunize against trauma or at the very least, to help integrate it to the point the negative effect is attenuated