Healing is not an absolute state; it is a precarious equilibrium.
Even when your external circumstances appear stable and content, unexpected provocation can reconnect you to a web of unresolved pain, initiating a cascading PTSD.
This phenomenon disrupts the linear assumption of psychological healing, showing it’s nature to be more circumstantial, ultimately managed rather than following traditional notions of recovery.
For example, you might be materially successful and outwardly happy, yet with one exchange a profound, gut-wrenching anxiety can still seize you, pulling you into introspection and rumination, fear and desperation that threatens breakage. And this event will seem innocuous or trivial to others, as the emotional linkage is parabolic in it’s descent.