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E. Symptoms of Protagonist Syndrome
We know now that whenever there is a syndrome, there will be clusters of symptoms. Because a high protagonist syndrome simply means living in your imagination more than reality, you may experience the following symptoms.
- A general sense of negative feelings most of the time.
- Problem with digestion or constipation.
- Very active brain during sleep and difficulty in sleep.
- Thinning hair.
- High irritability and anger for some people.
- Feeling as if life and days are either too fast or too slow.
- A sense of energylessness.
- Feeling bored in your current life and desire to travel or find new experiences in life.
- Getting stuck in the chain of thoughts.
- Loss of attention and focus.
- Loss of memory and difficulty in recalling things fast.
- The urge for social media scrolling.
- Lack of interest in doing something that needs high attention, rather than a desire to do exciting things.
- Increased desire of taking more risks with life.
- A general loss of taste.
- Feeling cold most of the time and desire to eat or drink cold beverages or food.
- Addiction to mobile and other devices.
What is the correlation of the protagonist syndrome with the symptoms?
You see protagonist syndrome is all about you. If you go back to the questionnaire, you will see the questions are merely about your feelings.
Because a protagonist only exists in a story, and because the role of the protagonist is to navigate from negative feelings to positive feelings, remaining in the story makes you need to be in a negative feeling state all the time, so that any new experience can bring positive feelings for you.
Now glance at the article one more time from the top. Did you see how your eyes are picking up the section of the article with more contrasting colors, than merely the black and white texts? That is because when you start living in your imagination, you look for only the contrasts in life. Absolute things are insensitive and less relevant to you.
