Sentimentality is a special property of the soul, in which all external impressions affect the senses, and not the mind. As a result, the sentimental person evaluates their life in terms of the experienced emotions.
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Sentimentality can be called a type of special pity, which is characterized by identification with a dysfunctional object. Sentimental people experience bouts of such pity when watching a movie or reading a book where someone is feeling bad. These experiences are usually very poignant and vivid. If we try to compare sentimentality with ordinary pity, we can say that sentimentality is more like a sudden prick of pain, and ordinary pity is more like a chronic illness.
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At the moment of an attack of sentimentality, a person puts himself in the place of the hero of the film, starting to feel and think like him. Sentimentality is a passive experience, because it does not induce a person to do something, it can be called a way to experience something new, unknown, unusual. It should be noted that a sentimental person can be cruel, rude and even angry. After all, his sentimentality can manifest itself in rare moments of a special emotional mood, it is unlikely that it will be possible to find a person who is constantly in a state of sentimentality.
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Excessive sentimentality has a rather negative effect on a person's life, since it breaks contact with the world of emotions. Due to some repetitive events that provoke outbursts of sentimentality, a person with a similar problem has to suppress their emotions, which can ultimately lead to illness, nervous breakdowns, uncontrollable tears and tantrums.
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In a sense, sentimentality can be considered one of the varieties of hypersensitivity, in which the smallest emotions can dramatically change the mood. Sentimental people can start crying for the most minor reasons. This is undoubtedly one of the properties of human nature that you can simply accept. Unfortunately, many people view sentimentality as a sign of weakness and generally useless. There are certain ways to better control these manifestations.
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To get rid of excess sentimentality, you can do some simple exercises. In your free time, it is enough to briefly concentrate on your own experiences, trying to figure out all the smallest shades and nuances of your own emotions. Such moments of concentration will remove the need for strong outbursts of experience, and will also allow you to better control them. It is necessary to perform these exercises for a long time, then they will give stable results.
