When you have a thought process going… and you remember something which makes you depressed or annoyed, and then you get distracted and forget what it was that got you annoyed/depressed… but you remain annoyed/depressed… and it’s now worse because you’re annoyed/depressed but don’t know why you’re annoyed/depressed, so you can’t rationalize your way out of the state of mind.
I know exactly what you’re talking about.
Usually it becomes this minor emergency. ‘‘Oh, no! Something bad exists in my reality and I forgot what it is and if I don’t figure it out soon we’re all going to die!’’
Yep, but it’s not a crisis for me so much as I just get pissy.
I am boycotting Nike, but I’ve forgotten why. But I know that at one time I had a really good reason–that company really annoyed me. I just don’t remember what it did to annoy me.
No, I may forget something I was worried about. And be mildly concerned until I can reconstruct what it was.
But the idea of having to work to find a reason to explain why I’m annoyed/depressed just doesn’t compute. It’s like asking, why did I remember to take my last breath.
Their use of sweatshops?
This happens a lot to me, too–just before I fall asleep I get a surge of horrible but vague existential dread, and I have absolutely no idea why.