Can humans not have feelings?

When you lose the ability to feel or express any emotions, this is called flat affect. If you feel numb only to positive emotions but are still able to feel negative emotions, this is called anhedonia. Anhedonia is a common symptom of depression and shows up in a lot of mental health conditions.
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What do you call a human with no feelings?

Apathetic means uncaring. It's an adjective form of apathy—the state of not caring. It can also mean the absence or suppression of emotion or passion. Apathetic is especially used to describe people with a lack of interest or concern about things, especially those that others find important or exciting.
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Do all humans have feelings?

Almost everybody has these different emotions from time to time, and they can have a big effect on the way people think and act. Because emotions have such a big effect on people's lives, scientists have spent a lot of time trying to understand how they work.
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Can you be born without emotions?

No…. children are NOT born emotionless. Emotions take a while to develop in the human child. A parent would first see evidence of emotions when a baby or child cries.
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Do psychopaths have feelings?

Psychopaths are not incapable of feeling emotions, like regret and disappointment, but what they cannot do is make accurate predictions about the outcomes of their choices, according to a study co-authored by Joshua Buckholtz, associate professor of psychology at Harvard.
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Can alexithymia feel love?

Can alexithymic people feel love? People with alexithymia can feel love when it's strong enough. They just can't describe or express it in a way that provides others with emotional validation. Instead, they may express their love through action, rather than words or affection.
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Why do feelings exist?

Why do we need emotions? Kendra Cherry, Psychology Expert, summarized the five main purposes of emotions quite nicely: Emotions help us to take action, to survive, strike and avoid danger, to make decisions, to understand others. Moreover, they help other people to understand us.
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How to have no feelings?

How to Be Emotionless
  1. Take some deep breaths.
  2. Focus on your body, not your mind.
  3. Look at yourself in the mirror.
  4. Repeat a mantra to yourself.
  5. Distract yourself.
  6. Avoid emotional triggers.
  7. Challenge your negative thoughts.
  8. Change your perspective on emotions.
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Did God give us emotions?

God gave humans emotions to prompt us to do something. And since God says that all of the commandments hang upon loving God and loving others (Mat 22:37-39), I know that emotions help us live in healthy relationships and stay connected to God and others.
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What type of person is emotionless?

Schizoid personality disorder is one of many personality disorders. It can cause individuals to seem distant and emotionless, rarely engaging in social situations or pursuing relationships with other people.
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Does God hear us when we cry?

God Hears You

He hears our cries of unhappiness, pain, frustration, exhaustion, and fear. We can be honest with Him. His listening ear is always open to our prayers. His loving heart wants to embrace us as we cry on His shoulder.
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Does God get angry us?

It's a way for us to understand God's emotional responses, to frame them in the way that we as humans experience emotions. So while God is not human, he does get angry.
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Are emotions born or made?

Emotions are not innately programmed into our brains, but, in fact, are cognitive states resulting from the gathering of information.
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How many feelings can a human have?

But a new study from Greater Good Science Center faculty director Dacher Keltner suggests that there are at least 27 distinct emotions—and they are intimately connected with each other.
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Do thoughts create feelings?

Thoughts and emotions have a profound effect on one another. Thoughts can trigger emotions (worrying about an upcoming job interview may cause fear) and also serve as an appraisal of that emotion (“this isn't a realistic fear”). In addition, how we attend to and appraise our lives has an effect on how we feel.
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How do humans get feelings?

Different networks in the brain can create the same emotion. And yes, emotions are created by our brain. It is the way our brain gives meaning to bodily sensations based on past experience. Different core networks all contribute at different levels to feelings such as happiness, surprise, sadness and anger.
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Is alexithymia a psychopath?

The prototypic person with alexithymia, however, is anxious, overcontrolled, submissive, boring, ethically consistent, and socially conforming, whereas the prototypic individual with psychopathy is anxiety-free, undercontrolled, dominant, charming, deceitful, and nonconforming.
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What is Philophobia?

Philophobia — a fear of love — can negatively affect your ability to have meaningful relationships. A painful breakup, divorce, abandonment or rejection during childhood or adulthood may make you afraid to fall in love. Psychotherapy (talk therapy) can help you overcome this specific phobic disorder.
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Is alexithymia a trauma response?

Traumatization has often been investigated as an environmental factor for alexithymia. To date, traumatization, occurring both in childhood and in adulthood, has been identified as the most important known risk factor for developing alexithymia.
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Who is the most angry God?

In Hinduism, Kali (Devanāgari: कलि, IAST: kali, with both vowels short; from a root kad, 'suffer, hurt, startle, confuse') is the being who reigns during the age of the Kali Yuga and acts as the nemesis of Kalki, the tenth and final avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu. This article contains Indic text.
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What are haughty eyes?

The word haughty comes from an old Anglo-French word, haut, which means “high,” and which comes from the Latin word altus, from which we get our word altitude. Putting all that together, we find that haughty eyes are the kind of eyes that look down at other people, as if the one looking down is “higher up” than others.
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Does God see our sin?

Scripture clearly indicates that God does view sin differently and that He proscribed a different punishment for sin depending upon its severity. While God does see sin differently we now have Jesus to forgive us of our sin.
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Does God laugh at you?

"The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming." The wicked come against the righteous, the poor, and needy as if they were to live forever. God laughs, he sees their coming destruction and says, "A little that a righteous man has is Better than the riches of many wicked."
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