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Old Apr 12, 2013, 09:11 PM
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I must offer a different opinion to all that has been said. Right now, my logic side is in great distress because he can't understand why the emotional side is going crazily out of control. Somewhat recently things took a very bad turn for the worst and I'm just having problems coping, sometimes. For me, a few years ago I had a full psych workup done on me and what stood out the most and I realize it's very prevalent in my life, is that, on it, it said that I have a profound understanding of the world, but I can almost never use my emotional side in conjunction with my logic side. I found myself looking at my life every now and then, and realizing this was very much true.

My emotions are going crazy right now and this divide is even more prevalent. One instance I can be sobbing over what happened, pushing me further down a very dangerous path. And then, it just stops and my logic side takes over and I do something else. I can't really remember making decisions using both looking back at the vastness of what I can't forget.

It has been said that, "A memory of a single man is a fortress, more complex than the vastest of cities". We are defined by how we use or logic and emotions. Sometimes there just things that one can't do and others that the other can only do. While for me they're always in conflict with having a smooth lifestyle and transition form one event to another, the use is just that. We use our emotions and logic in relative synchronicity, and they do fall out of sync. There can be no answer to how we can integrate them without losing control. They have to do that all by themselves. Monks, for example focus years of devotion to living a lifestyle that is only towards one emotion and all logic. That level of commitment means that they shut down parts of their emotions, but they're still there, just suppressed.

There is no integration for either of them, because for everything to work right they have to act independently. How much they communicate with each other to make connections that drive us. That's up to time, fate and environment. If you want to retrain your brain to integrate them better, It doesn't take days or months, it takes many years of striving for this. People who undergo this at a mental health facility are only given the tools to do it and a starting point. There not changed and they can relapse at any moment. However, they have been given for something to strive for.

I wish I could integrate them at all, but I can't and my life and transitions throughout the day are like bipolar switching every few minutes to hours. I can't nor do I think I can, or even on that note, want to, change how they work, because there are just some things that I need from one and not the other to get myself going or to understand something or get myself to stop. besides, my comprehension skills are driven almost entirely by my logic side and that has allowed me to understand what is. It also a few years ago gave me a 138 on an IQ test I had to take for school, the variant was +/- 7 too.

During this conversation, typing, I was in quite the emotional distress, but now I'm not, but I can feel it coming back. So there is no right answer to integrating them, they need to do it on their own if they can.