Post by UndeadTiger on Jan 29, 2011 23:53:50 GMT -4
I know it's been nearly a month and the actual roleplay has already started, but I feel like offering a counter-reply.
This will probably lead to a breakdown, screaming crying sobbing and hugging for the smallest and biggest offenses she finds to herself that she would have even felt the smallest twinge of guilt for.
I believe that it actually is possible to "lose" one's emotions. There are several different personality disorders within the human brain that effect your emotions. Psychopathy, from my understanding, is a disorder where you understand the human emotions and know how to portray them, but can't actually feel them.
One cheap example (though it's the easiest for me to explain), is from an episode of House. :P A lady came in with her good looks and charm manipulating everyone and it was discovered that she was a psychopath. She understood people's emotions and how they worked, using them to her advantage, but not feeling any shame for what she did (not any other emotion).
"Thirteen finds out the missing link by spending half an hour asking Valerie about what she loves and hates during an MRI. During this test, Valerie's brain bypasses the emotional centers and she uses the language sections of the brain to answer the questions." -Wiki House Episode Listing: Remorse
Eventually it was determined that there was an underline illness that had caused the psychopathy as she hit puberty. Now, I know House is a fictitious drama on television and at some point Hollywood is bound to take over, but there's still that underlying of actuality when it comes to medicine.
I will agree that traumatic events can block one's emotions, like Valerie from that House episode. Her symptoms, I believe, were also a result of her abusive father. But upon other readings psychopathy can also be genetic, therefore you may be born with it.
Although, not to be picky or anything, reading through the thread and through the post I quoted, it seems that the idea is to cause a traumatic event to induce emotions? In my own opinion I think it'd be better to create an enlightened experience to then induce lighter emotions. From personal experience a traumatic event will cause anger and rage if not complete numbness.
Unless, of course, that's what you want, rofl.
It is physically impossible to lose one's emotions. Traumatic things can numb and build mental barriers to create a lack of caring or empathy to things. So it comes with meeting an individual she may have a slight attraction to (nothing that would require a long term relationship.) or someone she may have felt bad for in the past. Let the emotions and thoughts and questions daunt on her until she herself accepts that she has emotions and accepts them as such.
This will probably lead to a breakdown, screaming crying sobbing and hugging for the smallest and biggest offenses she finds to herself that she would have even felt the smallest twinge of guilt for.
I believe that it actually is possible to "lose" one's emotions. There are several different personality disorders within the human brain that effect your emotions. Psychopathy, from my understanding, is a disorder where you understand the human emotions and know how to portray them, but can't actually feel them.
One cheap example (though it's the easiest for me to explain), is from an episode of House. :P A lady came in with her good looks and charm manipulating everyone and it was discovered that she was a psychopath. She understood people's emotions and how they worked, using them to her advantage, but not feeling any shame for what she did (not any other emotion).
"Thirteen finds out the missing link by spending half an hour asking Valerie about what she loves and hates during an MRI. During this test, Valerie's brain bypasses the emotional centers and she uses the language sections of the brain to answer the questions." -Wiki House Episode Listing: Remorse
Eventually it was determined that there was an underline illness that had caused the psychopathy as she hit puberty. Now, I know House is a fictitious drama on television and at some point Hollywood is bound to take over, but there's still that underlying of actuality when it comes to medicine.
I will agree that traumatic events can block one's emotions, like Valerie from that House episode. Her symptoms, I believe, were also a result of her abusive father. But upon other readings psychopathy can also be genetic, therefore you may be born with it.
Although, not to be picky or anything, reading through the thread and through the post I quoted, it seems that the idea is to cause a traumatic event to induce emotions? In my own opinion I think it'd be better to create an enlightened experience to then induce lighter emotions. From personal experience a traumatic event will cause anger and rage if not complete numbness.
Unless, of course, that's what you want, rofl.
Yeahhhh.
I know I went off the deep end with that one.
BUT HELL THAT WAS FUN.
Sorry, ignore me if you want.
n___n;;
I know I went off the deep end with that one.
BUT HELL THAT WAS FUN.
Sorry, ignore me if you want.
n___n;;