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The Overwhelmed Brain

When all feels lost and you believe nothing will ever be good again

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Experiences of loss, such as a breakup and losing your job can have a profound emotional impact on you. In fact, it can feel devastating. Afterward, a childlike confusion can follow. Will the pain, sadness, or confusion ever end? Is there a path forward? If you can get out of the rut, yes there is. But it takes a perceptual shift you may not have while you're down and out.

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0:15.0

I remember when I had my girlfriend. my first real girlfriend.

0:17.0

I had one before that, but my first real girlfriend lasts about a year and a half.

0:21.0

And one day she broke up with me and I was devastated. I was

0:29.1

absolutely devastated that was

0:35.0

pretty young.

0:38.0

and she broke up with me in the backyard.

0:41.0

And she broke up with me in the backyard.

0:48.9

And I started bawling I started crying so hard I didn't know how to handle it this was the person I spent all my time with. This is the person that I believed I loved and that she was the one and that we were going to be together forever.

0:58.0

If that was even a thought in my mind back then, but I didn't know of any other life, any other life without

1:06.0

her. I didn't know anything else. It was all about her. All my thoughts were about her. And when they weren weren't I knew that I was going to see her again.

1:16.0

So when she said, I don't think we should see each other anymore, I just started crying. I felt like, I mean at 19 I was pretty much an adult

1:26.7

and I was just crying my head off right in front of her. Why? Why? And I mean I can laugh about it now.

1:36.0

But, um, she said,

1:38.0

I know, I just think we should...

1:41.0

And then at the end of my crying,

1:43.4

it feels like it lasts about 20 minutes.

1:46.2

At the end of my crying, she said, well, okay,

1:49.5

let's just see what happens.

1:51.3

We'll try again. I said I said oh thank you so much thank you so I was

1:56.6

so grateful thank you thank you thank you and the next day she broke up with me.

2:03.0

Permanently, that was it.

2:04.8

We were done and I forget if I cried again, but that was it.

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