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Emotional Reasoning

Postby bane_of_histrionics » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:41 pm

I've read that HPDs engage in emotional reasoning, i.e. they treat their emotions as evidences of truth. What exactly does this mean? Can someone illustrate this with an example?
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Postby Firnlothwen » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:44 pm

example:
you feel like you can't hold on to a friendship. you feel bad about yourself and like you're not interesting. you deeple feel your low self esteem. these emotions can become your way of valueing your friendships. if a friendship is terminated, your truth will be that it's because you're a bad person and you're not interesting.

you turn your feelings into fact of cause..


hope this helps..
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Postby KontrollerX » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:39 pm

HPD's have extreme difficulty with logic so using their emotions to decide things is pretty much all they have left.

Its not to say they couldn't get in touch with logic and become logical in thinking but it would take therapy and a conscious effort on their part.

Often their minds are very clouded about many things.
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Postby rcd1390 » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:52 pm

For what it's worth, I found, when asking them a question requiring logic and reasoning, that there is a brief blankness on the face as they look inwardly for a response. Then, realizing that they really have no idea how to respond, they shrug and offer a flippant response and change the subject. As you watch closely over time, you'll notice both the eyes and facial expressions mirror the inner emptiness when they are forced to use logic.
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Postby Sarina5 » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:25 am

Firnlothwen wrote:example:
you feel like you can't hold on to a friendship. you feel bad about yourself and like you're not interesting. you deeple feel your low self esteem. these emotions can become your way of valueing your friendships. if a friendship is terminated, your truth will be that it's because you're a bad person and you're not interesting.

you turn your feelings into fact of cause..


hope this helps..


Thanks for explaining how I feel about friendships. My self esteem is non existent. I always feel really bad about myself. And I'm really terrified of love because it used to hurt me so much in the past. But I still want to feel loved, if that makes any sense.
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