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Originally Posted by BlessedRhiannon
Your argument holds as long as you assume that ALL emotional responses which might be worked on in therapy are both unwanted and involuntary.
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Yes. Both unwanted and involuntary.
Your OCD impulse is involuntary in that it activates automatically.
You can't (I assume) do anything that prevents the initial impulse.
After that, you can react to it anyway you want.
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Originally Posted by BlessedRhiannon
If an emotional response becomes voluntary or wanted, it negates the argument, even if one is seeking help in therapy to deal with that response.
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I'd say all emotional responses are involuntary. I can't directly feel any emotion.
If we could voluntarily feel anything, there would be no psychotherapists.
Actors spend a life time practicing how to evoke an emotion.
They don't just tell themselves to feel this or that and it happens.
They need to do something that simulates the involuntary response.
I can go to a movie I know will probably scare me but I can't just be scared.
Although, most of our emotions happen without our planing or expecting them.
I meant getting rid of anger in general. Not a specific anger.
In general, I think unwanted anger tends to build into unwanted and unjustified
anger responses.
The more one can find uses for their anger, the less odd outbursts occur.
But that's a different issue.