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ELI5: When dealing with emotional trauma like the death of a loved one, or a breakup, why do emotions quickly oscillate between deep sadness and acceptance?
gpt
It's like this. Let's say that your computer is broken, you know it's broken, and you are sad. Same with someone else's death or a breakup, you realize it is gone, and there's nothing you can (at least immediately) do about it. When you accept, you get a small amount of time where you're alright because you know there's nothing you can do, you just have to get it over with, but then after a while, you get remembered about all the happy memories you had, and how you want them back, and you wish you could have them back again.