If I’m understanding umit correctly, it’s more like they only experience the emotions of a situation in that situation and memories lack that cognitive association with those emotions.
e.g. So a situation I get angry / sad about happens. Unless it keeps up the feelings wane over the next few minutes, thinking about the triggering events does not bring back the emotions…if I want to stay angry, I have to really work at it too keep the emotion going, it is never “worth” the effort.
If one thing makes me angry, and I haven’t had a few minutes to let the emotion fade, and something else tips me off then the anger builds at the new thing and fades for the old thing; it just happens faster.
In saying that, I really don’t get angry all that often; as I have worked through most of the things that set me off. Except bullying, that still fucks me off to no end.
Is there some sort of cooldown where you can experience the emotion again after a certain amount of time?
If I’m understanding umit correctly, it’s more like they only experience the emotions of a situation in that situation and memories lack that cognitive association with those emotions.
That is a great way of framing it.
It isn’t like that.
e.g. So a situation I get angry / sad about happens. Unless it keeps up the feelings wane over the next few minutes, thinking about the triggering events does not bring back the emotions…if I want to stay angry, I have to really work at it too keep the emotion going, it is never “worth” the effort.
If one thing makes me angry, and I haven’t had a few minutes to let the emotion fade, and something else tips me off then the anger builds at the new thing and fades for the old thing; it just happens faster.
In saying that, I really don’t get angry all that often; as I have worked through most of the things that set me off. Except bullying, that still fucks me off to no end.
Ah, I see, it’s attached to that specific memory. That makes sense!