Emotional Cycles

I wrote a post a while ago that touched on the subject of Cold Reading, and how essentially we all go through the same things in life and in reality we experience a lot of things in common.  One of those things we experience is the time of deep emotional introspection, which manifests itself periodically where we take stock in a manner of speaking of our lives, loves and everything.  I am in the middle of this cycle at the moment.

What this cycle usually entails for me is a period of time where I become reserved and reclusive, I shut people out and I become completely self absorbed.  That sound negative and in a way I suppose it is, but it is necessary, for me and for you.  We all need moments to ourselves,most people take it when they can get it, but for some of us we put it off so long that the time we need to 'reset' mounts up and amasses a debt, which will eventually need to be repaid, repayment usually takes the form of a prolonged period of reclusion.

In my time, a number of people have shared this view and we have discussed it at length, one close friend referred to it as a Man-Period, a male equivalent of the monthly emotional cycle of menstruation and I think that is quite fitting.  I don't think this is entirely unique to males however as I know a few women who go through a similar cycle, which doesn't tend to follow a monthly rota, if anything these cycles can take months to repeat, maybe even years before they come round again.

Some people never experience these cycles through self realisation, instead they only experience them when they experience events that are hard to deal with, in the extreme this leads to a nervous breakdown where everything becomes too much and the individual just can't function, as Russell Kane calls it "A Kitchen Floor Reset" where you, being a well rounded independent individual get stumbled by something so bad you end up retreating to your pillars of strength - usually your parents - then breakdown "crying on the kitchen floor"

Maybe this can explain it better: