Posted: Dec 19, 2018 10:39 pm
Fallible wrote:
You can absolutely control emotion by rationalising it
You have said this before but what makes me sceptical of it is how certain you appear to be
You can certainly control some emotion by rationalising it but this is not true for all emotion
It depends on the emotion in question and the degree to which rationalisation may be effective
In some situations it is entirely useless so it is shades of grey rather than the extremes of black and white
Some one who is schizophrenic or psychotic for example can not come out of that state by rationalisation