by AJTheGamerBoy March 8, 2023
Get the EMOTIONAL DAMAGE mug.Just as color perception (and in turn blindness) exists on a spectrum, so too does the ability to experience emotions.
Most people who experience color deficiency, do not have issues with all color (red and green are most common). Color blindness can also come with heightened awareness in other areas...like better than average night vision or a keener sense of smell.
These details parallel well when describing people with emotional deficiencies, in that:
(1.) Someone on the spectrum for narcissistic traits, often still keenly feels rage, envy, hatred and fear.
(2.) Narcissists experience the above emotions more often and at greater intensity than the average person, BECAUSE they lack the ability to feel other emotions (like empathy) which might otherwise (ironically) diminish and balance those feelings out.
(3.) Even a full blown psychopath with no neurotypical fear response, (I.E. only feels an adrenaline rush) is not 100% emotionally colorblind. They still experience pleasure in a limited, ego driven sort of way. If this were not the case, they would have no motivation to do anything, (including anything bad.)
(4.) Total lack of emotional feeling and complete colorblindness, are both incredibly rare, and can signal something more serious...like a brain injury or a neurological condition.
Most people who experience color deficiency, do not have issues with all color (red and green are most common). Color blindness can also come with heightened awareness in other areas...like better than average night vision or a keener sense of smell.
These details parallel well when describing people with emotional deficiencies, in that:
(1.) Someone on the spectrum for narcissistic traits, often still keenly feels rage, envy, hatred and fear.
(2.) Narcissists experience the above emotions more often and at greater intensity than the average person, BECAUSE they lack the ability to feel other emotions (like empathy) which might otherwise (ironically) diminish and balance those feelings out.
(3.) Even a full blown psychopath with no neurotypical fear response, (I.E. only feels an adrenaline rush) is not 100% emotionally colorblind. They still experience pleasure in a limited, ego driven sort of way. If this were not the case, they would have no motivation to do anything, (including anything bad.)
(4.) Total lack of emotional feeling and complete colorblindness, are both incredibly rare, and can signal something more serious...like a brain injury or a neurological condition.
I've never heard someone say they wish they were colorblind, but I've heard a ton of people say they wish they lacked certain feelings, because they think it would solve all their problems. This is kind of like thinking you could avoid getting stuck in traffic if you no longer saw the red in a red light. Emotion is not the heart of the problem.
Emotional color blindness might very well take away things like: codependence, trauma responses and making personal sacrifices for conscientious decisions...but it would also diminish your capacity for joy and your ability to have meaningful relationships with anybody.
Better to sort out the kinks, then throw the whole baby out with the bathwater.
Emotional color blindness might very well take away things like: codependence, trauma responses and making personal sacrifices for conscientious decisions...but it would also diminish your capacity for joy and your ability to have meaningful relationships with anybody.
Better to sort out the kinks, then throw the whole baby out with the bathwater.
by Olive989 March 15, 2023
Get the Emotional Color Blindness mug.Related Words
Baseball games that people turn on when something stressful or bad is happening. Divorce? Funeral? Just feeling sad? Baseball is waiting for you.
by WeUsedToPlayHouse March 16, 2023
Get the Emotional Support Baseball mug.(interjection) you shout this word pointing your hand at the tv when you die to EMOTIONAL DAMAGE in a videogame.
by ahmoun ghass October 24, 2022
Get the Emotional DAmage mug.A: how are you feeling?
B: 'idk i kinda feel like i have emotional congestion.'
Or 'idk i kinda feel emotionally congested.'
B: 'idk i kinda feel like i have emotional congestion.'
Or 'idk i kinda feel emotionally congested.'
by that_typical_guy November 2, 2022
Get the emotional congestion mug.The ability to focus so deeply on a specific emotion that it can be felt without having to experience anything physical at all. With practice, a being can feel a desired emotion on demand. With even more practice, a being can feel a desired emotion on demand regardless of what is occurring in the world around them; the chaos that exists around them cannot break their emotional focus. The emotion being focused on becomes so strong that it can be felt by anyone within close enough proximity of the being in focus.
"John has great Emotional Focus, he feels grateful for everything at all times regardless of what it is. He is like the physical incarnation of gratitude and I feel grateful just by being in his presence."
"It's a waste of time trying to insult John, he feels so grateful for his own existence that your words will have no effect on him. if anything he will be grateful for the insult because he will view it as means of testing his own Emotional Focus."
"It's a waste of time trying to insult John, he feels so grateful for his own existence that your words will have no effect on him. if anything he will be grateful for the insult because he will view it as means of testing his own Emotional Focus."
by Light Being 9 November 7, 2022
Get the Emotional Focus mug.When you move too quickly in a relationship and develop emotions towards the other person too quickly
"Wow, Jessie's already calling them her girlfriend, thats pretty intense"
"Yeah, they definitely hitched an emotional UHaul, its only been two weeks since they met"
"Yeah, they definitely hitched an emotional UHaul, its only been two weeks since they met"
by E31ly November 30, 2022
Get the Emotional UHaul mug.