Two things:
- First of all, I have something under my eyelid, it feels uncomfortable, and I can't get it out.
- Second of all, can neuroticism be a spring, so that if you go through it, you'll bounce back greater than you were before?
The quick online research I did on the second subject was inconclusive, since apparently no one has ever thought of the whole thing like this before my partner, who brought it up yesterday. All I could find was
- reasons why neuroticism could be a good thing, namely, "you'll be more empathetic", and
- suggestions that you seek therapy to tone your neuroticism down a bit, since you can't completely recover from it.
I admit that the idea of someone highly neurotic becoming a holy fool sounds dubious at best.
I think that the pessimistic prognosis of "you can't recover from it" is also a bit dubious, since I know from personal experience that it's possible to drastically reduce your neurotic tendencies and live a completely different life - not as a full-fledged holy fool, but basically as if you were healed.
So let's say that you were normal, then you became severely depressed, then recovered from the depression one way or another, and now, you're much more than what you were before the depression. The depression was like a spring - the lower you push it, the higher it hoists you.
The more depressed you were, the more of a superhuman you become.
Possible?
Impossible?
Happened already with someone?
A regressive gene that only manifests in a fraction of people?
RK out.
