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Immunising the self to one's happiness
Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom King Edward sacrificed the throne of England, once said you couldn’t be too rich or too thin. Had she been familiar with weird science emerging out of an outfit called the American Mental Health Consortium, she might also have warned you against the dangers of being too happy or getting too lucky for your own good.
Happiest folks around the world supposedly face the risk of developing a newly identified syndrome called ‘
Post-Euphoric Bliss Disorder’. According to the consortium’s spokesman, the ‘serenity disease’ that can turn extreme good luck into devastating misfortune is most likely to develop after the sudden death of an unloved one, winning the lottery, or passing the bar.
That’s when victims of the disease begin to suffer from an enervating series of flashbacks capturing their original moment of glory. So if a bliss-sufferer’s fifty-room mansion catches fire in the fireworks of birthday celebrations, or if his private jet suddenly stalls at 40,000 feet, he could be so lost in his reverie of prior happiness that he is unable to save himself.
The pathology of repeatedly going into ‘
good times past’ could be a mirror image what happens during post-traumatic stress disorder. The only difference is that bliss replaces negative trauma, to cause similar debilitation from excessive indulgence of positive recall.
Malcolm Renner who allegedly made a billion-dollar killing in the sale of his website recently is one such victim who almost died because of his body’s
inability to ‘metabolise’ excessive happiness: He found himself completely paralysed by joy, while being barely able to tell that his Masserati was teetering on the edge of a mountain road in Tuscany.
Luckily, for him the supermodels in his back seat had been nibbling on celery stalks for breakfast: had they been an ounce lighter, he said he wouldn’t have been there to warn people about the dangers of having too much happiness!
Those wanting to protect themselves from going over the top with extreme good fortune are advised to practise exposure therapy, to immunise themselves to their happiness.
One exercise offered by the consortium involves swimming in a room filled to the brim with cash like Uncle Scrooge often does in Walt Disney’s Duck Tales.
This reportedly desensitises you to problems of plenty. Hair shirts and carrying of crosses may be cheaper.
Immunising the self to one's happiness-Editorial-Opinion-The Economic Times
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