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The Bittersweet Symphony of Emotions


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Throughout my life, my range of emotions has been limited. I'm never happy, sad, angry or cheerful, I just hover through life in this mundane neutrality(which has it's benefits). Because of this, I crave disastrous situations which would force emotion out of me, even as far back as age 8 I remember day dreaming about family members dying so I could feel. It takes something significantly wrong to draw any feeling from me.

After this whole ordeal.........I felt a space that has been filled for 12 years dislodge itself. That amount of loss was an amazing feeling, imagine feeling the heavy loss of abandonment while being overjoyed at a new, open and adventurous future and then being ecstatic because you can actually feel it in the first place. I'm happy to be sad(or any emotion really) if that makes any sense.

I know this can't be right, there's obviously some issues needing resolved. I'm guessing my lack of emotions leaves me hyper-sensitive to the ones that do eventually reach me. I see this as potentially dangerous, although I haven't felt them yet I predict that soon I will have urges to put myself in self-destructive situations just to indulge myself in this phenomenon once again.

 

  • Are there any of you like this? can you relate?
  • This seems so messed up, is this itself a disorder?
  • Your thoughts in general(solutions, recommendations) 
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The Bittersweet Symphony of Emotions

I am not sure what ordeal you are talking about. 

But, the gist of what I am getting, is that you have bottled up emotions which you feel are coming out? So they feel extra painful?

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"When a person is continuously stressed by emotional pain, there are subtle changes in the body that create a dependency on stress-related chemistry. Changing habitual patterns of pain can be as difficult as giving up an addictive substance, such as nicotine, alcohol, or even heroin. The emotional pain addict unconsciously seeks out situations that are sure to result in pain. A history of prolonged, negative, stressful relationships is usually symptomatic of emotional pain addiction. The feelings of love and pain are so frequently associated that they become one and the same. Loving unavailable people and staying in intolerable relationships, for example, are signs that love and pain have become intertwined" -http://www.thepositivemind.com/poetry/aboutpainanddullnessarticle.html

Solved my own question. This is what I've been looking for all along.

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Put simply, yes. However it is not that easy. I love unavailable people, because I am afraid of commitment. So, I pick someone who will ruin any chance at commitment.

I am afraid-so i pick someone who doesn't commit.

Win/win or Lose/lose situation?

I don't have sex, because I am avoiding another bad relationship.

Do you do the same?

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That's completely different from my scenario. I'm not afraid of commitment. I signed my life to my country for the next 6 years as an infantryman. I've actively stalked a woman for almost 6 calenders.

My whole life has been about challenge, it's always about pushing my own limits and going beyond what others thought as impassable, just to prove it to myself. It's only know that i realize that I'm drawn to challenge because I've become surrounded by it my entire life. I've always hated complacency and I've always craved achievement.

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I don't really take physical challenges, so I like emotional ones.

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physical, emotional or mental i need at least one of them to function correctly. Probably the reason I love the idea of an apocalypse.

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You have the avatar for one.

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i was bored and concerned about food at family funerals and annoyed it was taking so long

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that's lack of empathy dex. 

it's not the topic at hand and doesn't relate. 

Did you want to feel sad?

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