EvF,
I'm with you; if a death affects you significantly then there is only so much you will be able to comprehend in one go. I would use the analogy of a towel, there is only so much water it can absorb and then it is saturated. Emotions are like that too. So, if a child you loved dies then you would be as broken as possible and having another die would not add 1 full unit of pain but maybe a little. If anything the more deaths, that were close enough to you to affect you, would mostly only increase the duration that you are saturated with grief.
At any rate I find it hard to quantify emotion and have found my moments of grief to be of a significantly different quality each and every time to even have a hope to compare the experiences.
Sae,
Emotions aren't mathematical. A broken mind can suddenly stop receiving input in any form and become completely numb or even giddily happy. Such is the nature of additive emotional distress.
Rhizo
I'm with you; if a death affects you significantly then there is only so much you will be able to comprehend in one go. I would use the analogy of a towel, there is only so much water it can absorb and then it is saturated. Emotions are like that too. So, if a child you loved dies then you would be as broken as possible and having another die would not add 1 full unit of pain but maybe a little. If anything the more deaths, that were close enough to you to affect you, would mostly only increase the duration that you are saturated with grief.
At any rate I find it hard to quantify emotion and have found my moments of grief to be of a significantly different quality each and every time to even have a hope to compare the experiences.
Sae,
Emotions aren't mathematical. A broken mind can suddenly stop receiving input in any form and become completely numb or even giddily happy. Such is the nature of additive emotional distress.
Rhizo
