The memories of our experiences and personal events are categorised as 'episodic memories'. But they're not just memories of events. These memories carry also with them all the feelings and emotions that we felt as they occurred.

Here is my question: Why is it that we remember the negative feelings so strongly that they overshadow all our happy feelings?

I really hate myself right now. And yet I still wallow in my own self pity. I'm a nutcase. And there's no one here to comfort me. Oh god there is no one ever to comfort me.

I hate myself I hate myself I hate myself.
Why can't I fix things?
Why can't everything be good?

I hate myself.

And I never knew how much it would hurt to have you treat me as a stranger.