Do your emotions ever stop?

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This kind of stuff happens to me if I don't take my ADHD meds. Too many thoughts racing through my mind too quickly.

When I have meltdowns my capacity for emotion is severely diminished, if not eliminated entirely.

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Yes. I don't think they're really shutdowns. I can go on with my business, for weeks or even a few months at a time without feeling anything deeply. Sometimes I just feel nothing at all, and that's when I don't talk very much. I *can* talk when I feel this way but it's hard work. I just have nothing to say.

I don't think I feel things deeply most of the time, really. There are times when I feel something really deeply, probably more deeply than most people but then I go back to being sort of a blank slate.

It's not like I have zero emotion the rest of the time, I usually seem pretty happy because, why shouldn't I be? It's easy for me to feel happy when I don't really feel anything else.

There are emotions, somewhere, it's just that if I don't *need* them, I don't have them. If something serious happens or I'm concerned about someone else, my emotions come into play. I feel most of the things other people feel, but maybe not in most situations. All of my real emotions are reserved for when they are truly needed.

No I've never felt completely like Mr. Spock on a logical day. There's always at least a few little bits of emotion running around my head, like vague excitement, boredom, anger, sorrow, amusement. I live in my own mind a lot, and the thoughts it produces tend to keep me interested.

But I've been through times of "flattened emotions" when things weren't really affecting me much at all.......they always happened during bad relationships, and I figured that I must have somehow repressed the intense negative feelings, and that led me to lose the positive feelngs as well. Anyway I always got better eventually. Just as well, as I really didn't like being that way. At its worst, I didn't even flinch when a cup fell from the mantlepiece and smashed into the hearth just a few inches from where I was sitting.

Yes, this happens to me a fair amount, and like another poster, I wish it would be permanent. Emotions are an inconvenience, especially when you watch something that is desperately tragic, and find yourself having to fight the urge to laugh even though you don't find the situation amusing.

Yes, definitely. Feeling apathetic is a very big problem for me that causes me a great deal of stress and self-blame. I sometimes feel so robotic that it's like if if I cut myself open, I'll see a bunch of wires, or short-circuit if I take a shower (That'd be a little inconvenient, I think.). If anything, I wish I could be more emotional more often than I am.

There are times when I am under stress that not only will I shut down emotionally, but my thinking will halt for several seconds, too. Kinda like someone suddenly hit the "off" switch....

In todays days..emotions does not matter at all..only money matter guys...

I kind of wonder if emotions are overrated, with all the grief and anger and hatred in the world. hmmmm

Ah yes, but if somebody took away all our emotions, we'd probably just curl up and die, there'd be no point to anything.

Though admittedly it wouldn't be so bad, because nobody would be sad about it, because there would be no such thing as sorrow.

what if we took away 50% of our emotions and kept another 50%? that way, humans would still be emotional beings, but we wouldn't be hysterical beings

Careful what you wish for.........even a nasty emotion like anger has its uses. Though as long as you removed sorrow, anguish etc., you might have a point. In a world where nobody could feel bad, things could be any way at all,. and nobody would feel upset. The human race would probably be extinct in no time, but as nobody would mind, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Nothing would ever be a bad thing again.

i was more thinking just making all our emotions still existant just 50% less strong all over the board. we would still feel all of them but they would not feel as intense.

A partial flattening of emotions? That would be good, except that I'd miss the euphoria.....I'd have to double my consumption of recreational drugs, and as for that wonderful spaced-out feeling of getting a new sexual partner, that's been gradually converted over the years to mild-happiness-with-a-sinking-feeling, so it would be a pity if I got any more apathetic about that (they really don't like it!), though it would only seem half as much of a pity as it would if we left things as they are. I think an intensity control would be better.......I guess that can already be done chemically, to some extent.