who feels their emotions and logic are at war

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When in doubt, for me logic is the deciding factor (often it's the only factor). The decision making process works more like a system of if/then queries than an examination of my heart.

What are the factors/criteria? Possible solutions? Difficulty/ inconvenience of or caused by solution for myself (and/or those I care about)? Are the solutions legal and/or ethical? Who will be impacted by this solution? etc.

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This is something I struggle with on a daily basis. From basically cutting off my emotions when I was much much younger I stagnated my emotional intelligence growth and have caused a rather large hole in my humanity, such as it is. Some emotions I still don't experience, and the rest are almost always confusing. I'm starting to finally learn how to experience some of them, though my intellect is still irrevocably in control. Unfortunately, should I ever wish to integrate properly with the world I have to learn how to combine the two to some degree. Going through life as Mr. Spock doesn't actually work for a person without an excuse. "Oh, I didn't get angry because I just don't get angry." Lost track of how many times I've said that. Never pleasant to explain to someone why I feel no grief over the loss of something/someone either.

Oddly, I never found it strange until I was called "heartless" by my mother. That was... eye-opening. Also when I decided I should probably do something about it.

Is it logical to expect emotions to be logical? Can any feelings be said to be, strictly, logical? Why should they be? Why should that conflict bother us? Etc!