Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, eitheror, or something in between.
There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up. " But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.
She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.
Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands. ' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.
