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Originally Posted by ZHereford  There is emotional pain and physical pain.
Emotional pain serves as a catalyst for building resilience - emotional resilience that is.
Emotional pending danger could be a nervous or psychotic breakdown.
Just as we build physical muscle we build mental and emotional muscle. As we mature we learn to deal with adversity and difficult situations.
I am not nearly as sensitive as I was when I was younger. I have learned to deal with emotional pain and disappointment and I am the stronger for it. I have also learned that I have a choice in how to perceive emotional events in my life. |
It would seem by this definition (which, btw, I cannot currently disagree with) that emotional pain's only function is to prepare us to handle more of the same. That sort of loop suggests (to me) that there is no inherent, useful purpose to emotional pain at all.
It would follow that we have two choices: Either use emotional pain to build our tolerance to more of it, or learn to avoid it completely.
If that's the case, I'm for number two!