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Hmmm kinda skeptical about dimorphous expression, like 'cute agression' 'so happy I could cry' etc. Why doesn't it happen in both directions? Why does it seem only to happen with certain emotions?
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i think when you’re so happy you could cry there’s a grief there. it’s like the grief of waiting and staying strong for a long time and then things get better and you don’t have to anymore
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about to head to bed and too tired to respond individually, but to clarify, i'm playing around with the idea that tears are literally always an expression of grief, and that "tears of joy" means there's grief mixed in with the joy
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I agree with this and I think it's a mark against the idea that people are just feeling so much of one emotion the brain has to balance things out by throwing in it's opposite
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Like when u love a baby so much u wanna eat it I'm not convinced that is down regulating the system
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