Perpetual Positivity Syndrome

A term coined by author Jeff Brown, PPS (Perpetual Positivity Syndrome) is one of the most common obstructions to awakening on the healing path. Defined as ‘the addictive need to default to positivity under any and all circumstances’, it prevents a maturation in the deep within because sufferers refuse to be present for all that is. Symptoms include a constant need to find the light in every situation, a tendency to forget or ‘rise above’ the negative aspects of their partners, an inability to fully support and hold the space for other’s suffering, and a turning away from the growth work demanded by life's challenges. Instead of forging a grounded, discerning positivity in the heart of all that is, they jump to the light, while averting the shadows that inform it. They reactively bliss-trip, when lessons are waiting in the wings to be learned. Those who suffer with PPS are often of the illusory view that they had perfect childhoods or that they have moved beyond the shadow, but they are sadly mistaken. If anything, their obsessive clinging to the ‘positive’ is rooted in their unresolved emotional material: pain and anger that will only come back to haunt them. At the end of the day (when the darkness settles in…), there can be no light without shadow. And no substitute for hard-earned transformation.

I eventually owned that I had Perpetual Positivity Syndrome, and I finally began to heal and grow.

by Yehudah July 1, 2017

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self-perpetuating ignorance

A phrase used to describe the blind beliefs of any institution or state where someone is told to believe something without evidence or reason and where that ignorance is then passed on to others (because they believe the lies they have been told) and becomes self-perpetuating.

'Nationalism is a form of self-perpetuating ignorance where we are taught to hate the 'other' or outside group.'

'No you cannot convert me to your religion, I have no desire to be a part of your cult's self-perpetuating ignorance.'

by lostinsuburbia May 22, 2013

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Perpetual Ejaculation

a nut that never ends

"im sorry sir but you are prone to Perpetual Ejaculation Syndrome"

by truegrit__ May 7, 2020

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perpetratin'

The actual definition can be described as follows: To be responsible for; to commit.
But the term "perpetratin'" or "to perpetrate" has come to mean something along the lines of faking, pretending, feigning, however you want to put it.

"Look at him, he's perpetratin' the game."
"I don't hate, and I don't perpetrate either."
"I picked up the car phone to perpetrate like I was talking" - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Parents Just Don't Understand
"Tru dat" - Vanilla Ice. (he is Perpetrating)

by Reneeeeeeeeeeee August 10, 2006

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