Big Heart Emotional Recall Syndrome

“I caught him cheating,” Brittany said, as we poured our morning coffee in the company kitchen. “You warned me. Frozen Snake Boy turned out to really be a snake. Why am I so stupid?”

“You’re not stupid,” I answered. “Not at all. You’re suffering from ‘big heart emotional recall syndrome.’ You loved the guy as only someone with a big heart can. You remember the happy times and feelings in vivid detail.  Those qualities make it hard to see people and things for who or what they are.”

She looked doubtful. “Were you ever blinded by big heart emotional recall syndrome?”

“Every recovering person has been blinded by it. We don’t even need big hearts.  Even if we hate everyone one and everything on the planet, our drug fills our tiny hearts, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. We recall those early days when it loved us back or at least took away some pain, and we loved that.  Big heart emotional recall blinds us, makes us think we can handle it. That’s one of the main reasons so many of us struggle to give it up.”

“Like I’m struggling to give him up,” Brittany said more to herself than to me “even though he really is a snake.”

“Saying that is an insult to snakes everywhere.”

Today I’ll beware of big heart emotional recall syndrome.

Burnout Training ©2018 by Ken Montrose

Burnout Training is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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