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How legit are your emotional reactions?

i have feeling but it feels like most if it is just buried deepish

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How legit are your emotional reactions?

I rarely feel anything

the most frequent times i do feel emotions they are a fast stream of shallow emotions

at rare times i feel deep emotions and they always have a clear and direct cause

 

sometimes i feel uneasy due a situation i had not planned that occurred, or if i lack experience in the situation, but this only happens while the situation unfolds, not before or after. And its rather shallow and fast to go away.

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How legit are your emotional reactions?

I'm pretty sure my emotions are legit the majority of the time. When I first moved last year I had to thaw out from extreme dissociation, and some emotions I didn't even know I had came flooding out. I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life to know they were in there. 

I started feeling sympathy where I wouldn't have in previous years and now I'm even experiencing emotional empathy occasionally, when I could have sworn that I was only capable of cognitive. 

It's been good for me to reconnect with this side of me, and I'm learning that I'm a lot more emotionally mature than I gave myself credit for.

I do feel things deeply depending on person, place, or thing. So I don't think I could put that up on a time table. When I was a child I felt things deeply all of the time. Everything was intense and overwhelming, and such a big deal. As you recall me telling you I'm sure, that I felt empathy for inanimate objects. Food, dishes, furniture, pencil erasers, etc. 

I imagine a lot of that shut down for the sake of my survival. Now that I'm not having to survive in the same way, some things I thought were broken forever are beginning to come back to me. Not the empathy for inanimate objects of course, but proper emotional empathy just the same.

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