by astrocoz

Question by maJESTIC haMSTERS: How does awareness of psychological processes affect the actual psychological process?
Basically, how does being aware that you are currently undergoing a certain psychological process affect the psychological process itself.

For example, say hypothetically, a loved one died. You’d be undergoing the process of denial. But being a particularly analytical and logical person, you recognise that you’re in denial. Obviously you have a conflict here between logic saying you’re undergoing denial (which is false) and emotion agreeing with denial. What’s the end result? How does this work out?

From experience (not the loved one death example), I’d say you reach a deadlock of confusion in which neither emotion or logic is able to beat..

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Answer by Solem
I identify with that deadlock you’re talking about. In recent months I’ve taken up overanalyzing myself in terms of psychological disorders like social anxiety and depression or dysthymia and it does not help anything but has made me confused and actually ACT INTO the behaviors of those disorders. I read somewhere that conditioning oneself to psychological concepts might engender an overly prominent sense of self that may not be the most productive or best way of existing in a society. I would much rather reach my own conclusions in my own terms based on “raw data” from my personal experience, than try and map these overly abstract and theorized ideas onto reality.

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