Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- .This section is about pleasure and pain. Topics include: ( ) Emotional pleasure. ( ) Physical pleasure. ( ) Emotional pain. ( ) Physical pain. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- (1) Is it necessary to divide all emotions into two groups named pain and pleasure? Can some other classification of emotions be more accurate and useful? (2) Where is the dividing line between pain and pleasure? If you are mildly uncomfortable one moment and marginally happy the next moment, what has really happened? (3) Pleasure can dysfunction as often as pain dysfunctions. (4) Painful emotions have an evolutionary function. Sometimes painful emotions function properly and serve a useful, healthy purpose by alerting us to improve the situation. (5) Sometimes the mind magnifies small pains until they seem large. Sometimes the mind takes large pains and deadens them somehow. Sometimes is is helpful. Sometimes it is unhealthy. (6) One does not want to live at the whim of emotions, nor the thoughts that cause the emotions, nor the events that cause the thoughts. One does not want to be controlled by one's emotions. Yet one should not completely disregard emotions, thoughts and events. --- 12/1/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- (1) Pain and pleasure are the two basic emotions. (2) There are two kinds of pain and pleasure: emotional pain and pleasure, and physical pain and pleasure. (3) Emotional pain and pleasure is linked to physical pain and pleasure. Physical pain and pleasure can cause emotional pain and pleasure. Emotional pain and pleasure can cause physical pain and pleasure. --- 11/28/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- (1) Pleasure emotions viewed as a sort of naturally produced drug addiction. When you do something that makes you happy, you feel good because of neuro-chemicals called endorphins. And, as a result, you are more inclined to do that behavior again in the future. We are all addicts now. (2) Pain emotions are supposed to make us not want to repeat an action. And we are supposed to want the painful emotions to leave as quickly as possible. So why do people get into extended periods of negative emotions? --- 11/29/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- A new view. There are as many types of pleasure emotions as there are types of pain emotions. Pain emotions like fear, sadness and anger might be obviously noticeable. Pleasure emotions might be less noticeable, and thus might not have names. However, the pleasure emotions are there every day, every moment. --- 11/28/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain and pleasure. (1) Free floating negative emotions. Free floating pain emotions like free floating fear, sadness or anger. Cut loose from their cause or source. Looking for a new target to latch onto. Looking to be expressed, vented. Free floating pain emotions can be a big problem. (2) We can posit the existence of free floating positive emotions. Free floating pleasure emotions are not a problem. Or are they? What if you do not know why you are happy? That can be a problem. What if you do not know what makes you happy? That can be a problem. The problem of free floating positive emotions is less obvious and perhaps smaller than the problem of free floating negative emotions, however, it is an important problem nonetheless. --- 11/29/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain caused by injustices done to you by you, others, and nature. See: Philosophy, ethics, justice. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain emotions are a call for action. Pain emotions are a sign of a problem. Pain is a signal something is wrong and needs to be fixed. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain helps an organism recognize and avoid unhealthy situations. Pleasure helps an organism recognize and pursue healthy situations. Both pleasure and pain recognizing abilities are needed for health, but that does not mean that painful, unhealthy situations are needed for health. If there is only pain recognizing ability then the organism will only avoid. --- 1/1/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain is natural and basic. Responses to pain can be healthy or unhealthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain is the number one cause of mental illness. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain of neglect and abuse. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain, anger and sadness are natural. The only course against them is work. Well thought out, concentrated, methodical, productive work. --- 03/19/1989
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. "What's buggin me"? Figure it out. Stop cause. (problem identification and solution). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. (1) Depressed state of mind. Constantly think of depressing thoughts, with no positive thoughts to counteract the negative thoughts. (2) Anxious state of mind. Constantly thinking of fearful thoughts. (3) Angry state of mind. Constantly thinking of angry thoughts. --- 4/8/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. (1) Is there anything I should get (A) Sad, depressed, (B) Angry, (C) Worried, fearful, scared, afraid, anxious, nervous about? And then engage in pathological behavior? For, example, bad luck or a wasted life? (2) Should I limit the degree and duration I feel any emotion for any subject? Is there a point after which a certain degree of emotion is pathological? Enough is enough. What is that point? (3) If you have not, or can not, reason out the situation fully, should you let emotion be your guide? (4) At what point is emotion adding to your mental abilities, vs. taking away your mental abilities? Emotional break even point. --- 10/30/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. (1) Pain from the outside: things in reality. (2) From the inside: putting yourself through emotional hell, for no good reason. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Ability to withstand x painful experience and the pain emotions that go along with it. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Against pain what? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Anger and depression are useful spurs to solve problems. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Attitude toward pain. You can say you (1) Hate pain and reject it. (2) Hate pain but accept it. (3) Are not bothered by pain. Neither love nor hate it. (4) Love pain, embrace it, it is ok and worth it if it gets you your goal. Some pain is just pain and not destructive (lactic acid build up). Most of the time it is destructive though. --- 12/30/1995
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Callousness. It helps to become callous to a certain extent to pain. How to do so? By understanding the subject involved. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Causes of pain. (1) Wasting time. (2) Doing wrong, stupid, unimportant things. (3) Doing nothing (passively hurtful). (4) Doing trivia. (5) Doing actively hurtful. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Constant low level pain is normal. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Defenses against pain. (1) Numb self through sex and drugs and food. (2) Catharsis through music (blow off steam). (3) Solve problem. (4) Be brave: "fu*k it" attitude. (5) Get a success or win in another area. (6) Think of old successes and wins. (7) Think of good things in your life or world. (8) Think of things to live for. Think of what you may or could do in other areas. (9) Think of revenge. (10) Think of your principles. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Deprivation vs. pain it causes in a specific individual. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Emotionally (1) Hurt: felt it. (2) Wounded: felt it, long time to heal. (3) Injured: adverse effects, impaired. (4) Destroyed: injured beyond repair, beyond full recovery. Knocked completely out of commission of doing what you need to do for any length of time. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Emotions caused by you being hurt by yourself, others, or nature. Confrontation stops cause. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Everyone is full of pain and hurt, from past and from present. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Everyone wants to get rid of pain. Everyone wants to get pleasures. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Fear and anger go together. Especially in terms of emotions related to social situations. (1) If you have anger then you want to take action, but you fear repercussions and reprisal. (2) If you have fear then you feel angry toward the cause of your fear. --- 6/23/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Feeling angry, depressed or anxious about a specific incident? It may be due to purely biochemical causes. It may be due to generalized anger, depression or anxiety. Even though it may seem to be about a specific incident. Or it may be a result of the specific incident. Or it may be a combination of any of the three. Or it may be due to some other incident. --- 1/3/2003
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. General, constant, slight unhappiness is normal (Freud), because life is pain (Buddha). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. How much pain can a person take, of what types, and still stay mentally healthy? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. How to function well under uncontrollable pain, without flipping out or breaking down. See stress. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. I don't enjoy slavery, deprivation, opposition, work, disease, old age, idiots, kids, victimization, crime, life, hurting innocents, mistakes, assholes, uncertainty, ignorance. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. I'd rather feel bad and confront situation and problems than feel good and be ignoring them. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Last night I was so lonely, both acutely and chronically, and thought that both I and fate have wasted so much of my life, I felt like getting on my hands and knees and throwing up in public, as a protest, but also because I just felt sick and in pain. --- 06/06/1994
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Life = pain. More life = more pain. The pain is cumulative, it keeps growing. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Life is more pain than pleasure. The pleasures don't make up for the pain. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Life is pain. Everything we do (even nothing) causes pain. Some more than others. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Life is pain. Pain is expressed as anger or sadness. Anger is better than sadness. Anger is an energy. --- 12/29/1997
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Life pain is expressed as either anger and hatred or sadness and depression, directed at oneself or others. They must be acknowledged, not repressed. They must be understood and dealt with to achieve catharsis. --- 03/16/1989
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Negative emotions cause each other. Depression causes anxiety. Anxiety causes depression. Anger causes anxiety and depression. --- 4/25/2003
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Negative emotions cause other negative emotions. (1) Anger causes sadness. (2) Anger causes anxiety. (3) Sadness causes anger. (4) Sadness causes anxiety. (5) Anxiety causes sadness. (6) Anxiety causes anger. --- 11/16/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Negative emotions cause themselves, compound themselves, snowball or spiral, by causing second-order negative emotions of the same type. (1) Anger causes anger. For example, you can be angry that someone made you angry. (2) Sadness causes sadness. For example, you can be sad that you are sad. (3) Anxiety causes anxiety. For example, you can be fearful that your anxiety will not stop. --- 11/16/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Physical pain vs. physical pleasure. Mental pain vs. mental pleasure. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Scarcity of necessities causes pain, which yields struggle, which causes pain, and which yields survival of fittest. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Sometimes painful emotions are appropriate. Suppose someone close to you died and you said, "I'm fine with that." That would be an odd response. --- 5/12/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Suffering definitions. (1) Knowing how bad your condition is, and how good life could be (intellectual suffering). (2) How you feel about your condition (emotional suffering). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Suffering is not always directly related to how bad off you are. You can be deprived and not know how bad off you are, and not feel pain about it. You can be leading a bad life and feeling no pain, fat cats. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. The book of pain. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. The pain of looking back: coulda, woulda, shoulda. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. The sinister air of reality after bad things happen. Everything looks different. Temporarily. --- 9/28/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. There will always be something to be depressed, or worried about. From past or future. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Total final pain is the judge. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Total pain of a society. Distribution of pain in a society. Average pain (types and levels) of individual in a society. See economics, quality of life (psychological quality as well as material quality of life). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Two Problems. (1) No pain when something is wrong is bad. A sign of repression. (2) Pain when something is not wrong is bad. Ex. pure biochemical depression. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Types of pain emotions. (1) Sadness. (2) Anger, frustration. (3) Worry, anxiety, fear, paranoia. --- 5/30/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Types of pain. (1) Physical. (2) Psychological. (A) Illogic. (B) Not knowing (not being sure = unconscious safety issue). (C) Unethical. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Types. (1) Pain of things lost. (2) Pain of things ungotten. (3) Pain of things wasted, partially or completely. (4) Pain of absence of things. (5) Pain of things unsatisfied. (6) Pain of being a loser. (7) Pain of knowing things aren't perfect. (8) Pain of meaninglessness and directionlessness. (9) Pain of hardship: labor, oppression, etc. (10) Pain of problems. (11) Pain of what could have been, what is, and what could be. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Types. (1) Pain we can do something about. (A) Alleviate symptoms. (B) Cure or solve cause. (2) Pain we can do nothing about. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Unconscious pain: pain you feel but you are not aware of the causes and solutions. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Unhappiness is a natural state which we naturally strive to reduce. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Ways to stop the pain. (1) Momentary: drugs alleviate symptoms. (2) Long term solutions. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. What causes people the most pain? (1) Average person: Lack of material things. Lack of social relationships. Increase in boredom. Decrease in freedom. (2) Me: Decrease in freedom. Increase in boredom. Lack of social relationships. Lack of material things. (Exact opposite order of "1"). (3) The relationship of emotions to values and ethics. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. What causes people the most pain? (1) Average person's pain priorities: Lack of stuff, lack of status, lack of friends, boredom, slavery. (2) My pain priorities: exact opposite order. Slavery, boredom, lack of friends, lack of status, lack of stuff. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. What do I not enjoy (neutral)? What causes me pain? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pain. Where does all my anger come from? Existential pain. A continual wellspring of pain, it manifests itself as sadness or anger. The sadness can cause depression or suicide. Better to express it as anger. Anger is an energy. But its bad side is that you can take anger out on innocent people. The anger can also bust up relationships. (2) The smart and honest feel the existential pain more because they see the natural injustice in the world more clearly. The dull and self deceiving see the injustice less. --- 11/14/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Physical pleasure and physical pain help guide a simple animal through its simple environment, thus helping to ensure its survival. Emotional pleasure and emotional pain help guide a complex animal through a complex environment, thus helping to ensure its survival. Emotional pleasure and emotional pain are an evolutionary extension of physical pleasure and physical pain. --- 8/10/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Pleasure. Happiness is sometimes used as a synonym for psychological pleasure. There are many types of pleasure emotions. (See: Psychology, emotion, specific, happiness). The pleasure emotions are as important to survival and development as are the pain emotions. --- 11/28/2005
Psychology, emotion, specific, pleasure and pain. --- Total final pain. --- 12/30/1992