Classmate Invades My Space!

I took a class in Interpersonal Neurobiology recently and learned why it’s so hard to get over strong emotions. I’ll use myself as an example. In the class, we were in small group sessions and I was really enjoying my small group of four women. Suddenly a male classmate joined us in the third session. He seemed argumentative and took over our conversation. The other women didn’t seem to mind, but I got really incensed. Actually, I was really surprised by how angry I was feeling. And as the minutes drug by, I couldn’t seem to get over it. My default setting for the limbic system defense mode is flight, so I began to plot how I would abandon the group next time he joined it.

According to my professor I was the innocent victim of my way out-numbered Cognitive nerves. I’ll explain about that tomorrow.