Tag: aversion

There are some people who argue that a religious life is its own reward, that worship and piety lead to an experience of a kind of sacred joy. Medieval Christian monks, however, were… more emotion Acedia

Pretending that death isn’t something to be bothered about is obviously unrealistic, but there’s no clinical term to describe the psychopathology of people who deny the reality of death.

There are those who believe that it’s enough to identify the general emotion of anxiety and leave it at that. The problem with that generalist approach, however, is that it either assumes that… more emotion Butterflies in the Stomach

It has become a common request in the course of a discussion to say, “Please, let’s not go there.” It’s a way of indicating that we would rather not visit an uncomfortable topic… more emotion Topoaversion