Is it possible to become emotionless?

[Judge]

Yes. But as others have posted, expect it to come at a cost of some sort.

 

[Fino]

I used to say this all the time! It was the reason I abused drugs for so long!

Medication helps, but the most helpful thing has been learning what causes the emotions and doing what I can to control my exposure to those things, as well as learning what things help to reduce or contain the emotions when they inevitably come anyway, such as music, meditation, stimming, etc.

 

[Thinx]

I wonder if initially one learns a way of emoting that is produced by how ones family is, but then there's scope to alter or develop, through friendships, interactions, therapeutic experiences etc? I've changed over the years through such experiences and therapy from being emotional in an unregulated way that felt difficult and distressing to being less emotionally affected.

This can have a downside in my experience that others may see me as overly rational or at times unfeeling, but hey if one has to choose between getting a full on download of the feelings of others and seeming cool, that's my choice. Also as noted in Tree's poll, I am a Cat...

 

[Ezra]

What's best are subdued emotions. I think if a person learns what triggers their emotional responses, one can learn to subdue them.