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Originally posted, 1/31/2005.
If my emotions were plotted on a Cartesian graph, the positive range would include:
The negative range would include:
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The updated version would have determination with positive anger in Quadrant 2, and would replace both shame and exasperation with anxiety, as described (though the feeling that "someone is walking over one's grave" might be a better description). I'm having trouble remembering exasperation ever being one of my primary emotions, but I did live with a creepy landlord when I wrote the original entry. There would be a place for negative anger, but it's an inherently unstable position, which becomes quickly transmuted to positive anger, determination, or love.
If my emotions were plotted on a Cartesian graph, the positive range would include:
- euphoria (Quadrant 1)
- love (Quadrant 1)
- anger (Quadrant 2--or 4, depending on where it's coming from and where it's going)
The negative range would include:
- shame (Quadrant 3. All other negative emotions produce shame)
- anxiety (Quadrant 3. Including subtypes fear of nothingness and numbness that can come from feeling threatened)
- exasperation (Quadrants 2/4. The negative face of anger.)
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The updated version would have determination with positive anger in Quadrant 2, and would replace both shame and exasperation with anxiety, as described (though the feeling that "someone is walking over one's grave" might be a better description). I'm having trouble remembering exasperation ever being one of my primary emotions, but I did live with a creepy landlord when I wrote the original entry. There would be a place for negative anger, but it's an inherently unstable position, which becomes quickly transmuted to positive anger, determination, or love.
