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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 6 years ago

what if there's no such thing as tears of joy

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11/15/2019
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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

about to head to bed and too tired to respond individually, but to clarify, i'm playing around with the idea that tears are literally always an expression of grief, and that "tears of joy" means there's grief mixed in with the joy

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11/16/2019
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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

e.g. your husband comes home from the war; the joy is that he's back, the grief is for all the sleepless nights you spent worrying

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11/16/2019
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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

a huge thing doing NEDERA / bio-emotive makes really clear is that people are running around with all sorts of deep pockets of old grief, and they can be triggered by joyful occasions as much as sad ones

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11/16/2019
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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

that in turn is coming from the most recent session i did, where i sobbed when i described wanting someone to tuck me into bed etc. (that's where that other tweet came from), *not* from describing feeling alone or uncared for

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11/16/2019
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Johnson (TC House Lisbon -Dec)@justavagrant_• over 2 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan omg i had a similar experience to this https://t.co/ywckjfFISl

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Johnson (TC House Lisbon -Dec)@justavagrant_• over 2 years ago

@relic_radiation @joespurpleshirt I cried the whole time, it reminded me of how my ex (that I had recently split with) would put my pants on for me when I was being lazy, and how much love I felt in those moments, and how I think deep down I didn’t believe that would ever happen again https://t.co/nUKhwwrWlA

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3/4/2023
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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan What if there is no strong correlation between emotions and physiology across large populations?

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11/16/2019
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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan I have continued to think about this and I wonder if rofl tears are actually supposed to represent pain due to laughing so hard 🤣

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12/5/2019