When used without reason, emotion can create a world where everything a person says or thinks is based on what the person feels. He loses his sense of judging both the sides of a situation. His decision, without being reasoned out may not do him well in the future. This powerful emotion, which leads one to make a decision, creates a cycle, which in the end will enforce his emotion from the beginning. The person chooses to ignore everything other than what he wants to see or feel.
An example can be taken from the animal kingdom. Many snakes are poisonous and have the potential to kill its prey. There have been many incidences that snakes have attacked and killed humans, however studies show that snakes do not hunt down humans, they attack only when they feel they are threatened. A person who has a phobia of snakes will have a biased perception that all snakes are poisonous and kill everything in their path, not looking at the fact that snakes only attack when they are threatened or are looking for food. He makes a generalization that all snakes attack humans in order to kill them. In the end he concludes that he is right in fearing snakes because he reasoned out that they kill humans.
This is the cycle one follows when one does not question his emotion and does not reason out his decisions. One can only get out of this cycle by questioning his emotions.
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