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NeuroSci Ramble: Emotion that doesn't necessarily evoke change

I read in Cognitive Neuroscience textbook today that emotion consists of three things:

A physiological reaction
A behavioral response
and a feeling


The second one had me a little confused.
Sometimes I had experienced emotion and not acted on it.
It had not changed my behavior.

Recently before going to bed, I have fears of death and feel intense emotion associated with that.
But I never acted on it in the moment. I had no reason to act.
But in the long run it does change my overall behavior. Though this may be just a subjective experience.

When intense negative emotion reflects on to behavior, that is when the problem arises.
We will always have these negative experiences. That is reality.
But how we deal with them is the control aspect of it.

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