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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
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Subject: Re: Choice
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 13:35:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 13:35:44 1985
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In article <1436@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
> What you describe is a suppression of natural physical reactions to
> sensations that are painful.  The act is an act of suppression, just
> as holding in your anger when you're really angry is suppression of
> emotions.  It is not considered healthy, but it can be done.
> 
> What some of the people here are talking about is NOT suppression, but rather
> a learning process through which one stops associating certain experiences
> with negative images that result directly in negative emotions, realizing
> that those associations are bogus.  That's not "controlling your emotions"
> in the same sense that "controlling your obliviousness to pain" is.

It might also be called "behavior modification" or "brainwashing" in
extreme cases.  The idea here is that one should not deny what is natural
for the human condition simply because it is painful at times.