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the internet has everything, Shitbyrd...

^hahahaha.....i hope you and your french model BF live happily ever after....

...on second thought maybe the fool should be your card....

As one who experiences emotions, let me say that this choosing emotions sounds a lot like cbt crap. Emotions are a lot like cause and effect. Having an affair with someone's wife won't elicit a feeling of joy and well being from the husband and asking him to choose some other feeling other than the one(s) he is feeling is unrealistic in my view. If anything, it asks that person to willingly delude themselves into feeling anything other than what is natural for them.

Restraining emotions too often for too long can have negative consequences in different areas of life. The best way to deal with emotions is to subvert them into something constructive for yourself, or just feel them. Feel them out loud, in private or whatever but avoiding them can potentially be catastrophic.

Cancelling emotions is a lot easier with the help of chemistry. I have taken antidepressants and anti-psychotics before and it made me feel how I imagine sociopaths feel: Zombified like a chemical frontal lobotomy. Not happy, sad, depressed, excited, motivated, inspired.. and knowing that made me resentful of the medications. I have found cannabis to be a much friendlier substance. It deflates any over pumped emotion and lets me feel relaxed and more at ease.

"I'd figure controlling emotion at all would make it more shallow, less genuine."

Do you think if given enough time these emotions would disappear or fade in the individual.

my OP was not about hiding or faking emotions.....

it's about being in control of them and how they manifest outwardly and effect you and situations.

to be able to choose to act on your immediate feelings or to choose to take a different course of action.

If they gained more control over it I could imagine them developing an associative tolerance of sorts against it. I'd at least imagine a minor level of dissociation between themselves and their feelings if they didn't reduce in volume. If they have to appear happy all the time, they may begin to question themselves about when they really are actually happy (as an example), the act itself circumventing the room to experience things in a more raw fashion. Having to experience or witness feelings when you wouldn't naturally, or when you would too excessively, I would imagine it jading the individual of the feeling (like funeral workers seeing people cry as a part of their job).

To be honest though I have no idea in a general sense. It would certainly cause some sort of development, but I think it'd take other factors about the individual in question to try to see what it'd become down the line.