Broken: Nervous psychology for loss

This post is part 1 of the chain.

Recently, while preparing for a dinner party, you need to recover the tablecloths – these are so unique to the extent that they reside in the lower stairs of the antique Chippendale chest. At the top, there were three paintings of antique Chinese porcelain, each of which was handcrafted in China centuries ago and shipped west of European tables. The larger, 19 inches, was also the most valuable.

When I opened the stairs, I didn’t feel any concrete movement. But it is clear that the above paintings did. The largest one, an expensive axis, extends forward and fell, not on the ground, but directly on my head. It has hit enough force to divide into two parts, as well as many fragments. In short, it was a disaster, an accident that managed to destroy the porcelain and its owner’s inability (ME) is almost at the same moment.

Although I was aware, I think I suffered from the moderate Concussion. When the guests arrived shortly, one of them commented at least on my unusual defeated behavior. There was a visible block on my head, and I found myself unable to fully engage. In the end, I left my party early, and turned the role of the host into my husband as I retreated in discomfort, physically and emotionally.

What was pain in this case was not just a headache, but also the loss of porcelain. This caused me to remember at other times this happened during my collection Professional life. In particular, I will consider the psychological neurological effect that it caused.

Earthquake

At four in the morning on April 18, 2008, the earth moved under – literally. An earthquake, rare for Indianapolis, where she lived, shook our house. It was my first instinct to check the porcelain.

On the main and second floors, everything appeared as before: the pots are erected, calm and unjust. But on the third floor, a light -full reserve where most of my group was evaluating, the image was different. There, the porcelain settled on glass shelves located in the wall outlets and in the upper cabin of the eighteenth century, with a corner mirror behind each shelf to reflect the reverse decoration. That mirror, designed to enhance beauty, has become a source of destruction. She fell during the tremor, and moved a piece forward in the glass door in the cabinet, which cracks. I could not open the cabinet without risking additional damage.

We called our glass stabilizer, which suggested to cut A circular hole in the part to remove the porcelain. This seems to be unable to defend. This surgery may destroy the object that he was trying to provide, and the cost of repairing antique glass was equally arduous. In the end, I had to open the cabinet – painfully – painfully – to save my best. But the worst happened: One of a pair of tea rays that match Foo, already broken, slipped and shattered beyond repair.

I lost a piece of history. But something else was also broken, something inside me. It was psychological nervous interaction. My mental, harmonious with emotional importance, not only recorded the event as a damage to property. Instead, explain it as Loss, Not sadness. the Nervous Circle circles attached and memory– Especially those who include the hippocampus and the gourm – seize the same distress that may be accompanied by the loss of a pet or legacy. In this case, it is He was The legacy, although it is adopted instead of Mora. It will not be the last.

Download fragile pieces in one’s luggage

On another occasion, I traveled from Paris in the nineties, I fill out pieces of newly obtained Chinese Chinese tea. He advised my husband against her, but I was stubborn and naive about the risks. Once at home, I heard the unambiguous crisis against ceramic. One dish broke in crossing. Even before his dismantling, it was a physical reaction: narrow chest, fast breathing. This was not anxious about the critical value of the object. My emotional mind again exceeded the logical crust. Studies in nervous psychology emphasize this pattern: the anterior split and the tropical frontal are involved strongly when there is something Irreversible It happens, especially when we think we have prevented it. This is a root Guilt.