Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "How the body keeps the score on trauma | Bessel van der Kolk for Big Think+" video.

  1. I deeply hate the toxic positivity, the demand of the modern world to be irrationally positive. Life in mostly harsh and mostly failure, having the grit and determination to keep going is how you get through. I've been a millionaire and I've been homeless, irrational positivity didn't help me in either situation.
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  2. I hope you find peace and calm. This was my comment IN 2015 I WAS BEATEN WITH METAL BARS AND LEFT FOR DEAD in a mugging. His description of the behaviour he describes here was identical to my behaviour Everything was a 1 or 10 - nothing in between. I was utterly incapable of assessing threats. Someone disagreeing with me was a threat to my life. Kids running behind me was a threat to my life. I concluded I was a danger to society and checked myself into a psychiatric hospital here in Bulgaria. They have a very different way of dealing with it here - but it worked. --- If your life is anything like mine, I know how hard it is
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  3. IN 2015 I WAS BEATEN WITH METAL BARS AND LEFT FOR DEAD in a mugging. His description of the behaviour he describes here was identical to my behaviour Everything was a 1 or 10 - nothing in between. I was utterly incapable of assessing threats. Someone disagreeing with me was a threat to my life. Kids running behind me was a threat to my life. I concluded I was a danger to society and checked myself into a psychiatric hospital here in Bulgaria. They have a very different way of dealing with it here - but it worked.
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  4.  @JustWatchingLilPeople  - the usual way people become millionaires - I got lucky. I mean yeah I worked hard etc. I used my initiative, I started lots of businesses and eventually one of them went viral and suddenly 100 orders a week was 1000 a day. My company was valued at €6 million by independent evaluation. BUT - its not like the movies, and that is almost certainly what you are expecting. The work does not STOP you have to maintain the work level, you can only live in one house at a time, you can only drive one car at a time - and the cars will quickly annoy you, what was AMAZING for the first year is uncomfortable and noisy when you get used to it. Friends turn into p a r a s i t e s who treat you like a resource and not a friend, they dont mean to but you accidentally train them - you dont want them to miss out so you pay for everything. It beats being destitute for sure - but once the novelty wears off its not what you expect. Its definitely not worth dedicating 25 years of your life to achieving as I did.
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