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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Choice
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 11:59:20 EDT
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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.
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