Let's finally give this a name. Welcome to PTCD. Post Traumatic Cringe Disorder.

[Amused]

Ever been a a good mood, maybe laying in bed ready to go to sleep, or having a great time with friends, or any moment of pure happiness, contentment or sense of accomplishment for that matter and a totally random cringy memory of something cringy you said or did decades ago pops into your head?

You have PTCD.

You're doomed to destroy all moments of happiness because your asshole brain chooses to recall every cringy thing you've ever said or done anytime you're happy.

Your brain hates you.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

traumatic

You're doomed to destroy all moments of happiness because your asshole brain chooses to recall every cringy thing you've ever said or done anytime you're happy.

That's too dramatic in my case, but I certainly experience this condition. TBI does not help either.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[mikeymikec]

Most of my really cringy stuff happened over twenty years ago, so I tell myself that and put my mind off it.

 

[BurnItDwn]

If PTCD doesn't get you, there's always Survivor Syndrome for those who lose loved ones and Imposter Syndrome whenever you have any success.

 

[sandorski]

Ya, those moments are why Old People think that Kids are stupid. When they happen to me I remind myself that kids are stupid. Feeling better, I go back to keeping an eye on the lawn.

 

[pmv]

That is not unfamiliar to me.

Often, though, by this point in life, the subsequent - slightly consoling - thought, is that everyone who witnessed it has since died.

 

[mikeymikec]

That is not unfamiliar to me.

Often, though, by this point in life, the subsequent - slightly consoling - thought, is that everyone who witnessed it has since died.

I take it you cleaned up after yourself thoroughly.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sometimes that happens to me. Then I try to think of something cringe one of my friends may have done and I really can't think of anything or I remember it but don't really think much of it, so way I see it, nobody I know probably really remembers anything cringe I did either, so why am I stressing over it.

 

[snoopy7548]

I just keep doing new cringe things in order to keep my mind off of previous cringes.