03-01-2016, 02:38 PM
(03-01-2016, 12:50 PM)irukandji Wrote:(03-01-2016, 12:39 PM)Nightschade Wrote: Arguably, nicks behavior could be explained by all of the things that he has already gone through making him emotionally numb.
Can you explain what you mean by 'emotionally numb', Nightschade?
Sure! I just mean that after all of the stressful situations he's been in, he's kind of undergone a habituation response. That basically means that after being barraged with situations that have taxed upon him emotionally, he no longer displays strong emotions to those sorts of situations, and thus his overall emotional response appears numbed. In psychology habituation has been illustrated to occur after repeated presentations of extreme stimuli. Basically, when so many bad things happen, they eventually begin to have less and less of an effect.