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Angnix
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28 Jun 2010, 12:10 pm

Deidara wrote:
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My emotions are too strong all the time, that's why I'm dxed with a mood disorder. I get too sad, I get too excited, etc...

Also as a kid, I would meltdown a lot. Emotional overwhelmed... I couldn't control it.




Do you always feel emotion or are there times you don't feel anything at all? As in total apathy?






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Emotion all the time of some sort or another.


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29 Jun 2010, 9:22 am

what are your emotions like when something really bad happind
i often have no emotions i dont now how to act! :o



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29 Jun 2010, 12:50 pm

My emotions are weird - sometimes I get really strong emotions but other times I feel nothing or get confused and don't know how to feel.



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29 Jun 2010, 1:01 pm

cazzie2010 wrote:
what are your emotions like when something really bad happind
i often have no emotions i dont now how to act! :o


I cry when I am frustrated- can't understand some concept, can't fix a situation.

When 9/11 happened I felt like crying cuz I was scared I was gonna get bombed since I lived near DC. I couldn't eat for like a day. I decided I should go to Ground Zero to inspect what had happened and get a feel for it. It was more out of disbelief that something like that could have happened, not real empathy.

I have only ever felt true true sadness on two occasions I can remember: 1) a friend I really liked more than a friend couldn't take it and decided to stop being friends with me 2) my cat died after I took her to the hospital to get shots

On both of these occasions I felt that what happened had been my fault.



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02 Jul 2010, 3:46 pm

Celoneth wrote:
My emotions are weird - sometimes I get really strong emotions but other times I feel nothing or get confused and don't know how to feel.


thats just how i feel :o



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02 Jul 2010, 7:26 pm

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I cannot express them in words appropriately I don't think, or control them well. Anger is groaning or soon hitting, throwing and stomping, sadness is crying and laying on the floor, happiness is jumping up and down and smiling, overwhelmed = meltdown, etc. At the most for words it's "I'm _______!". If I'm on a computer I can look up the dictionary definitions for emotions and say anything so it's much simpler.


I agree with buryuntime thats I cant really describe in words either and I do what they do.

I just cant control my emotions at all. They go in a pattern, First anger, sad usually end up bawling my eyes out then happy and become silly until something sets me off again. I meltdown a lot at work I have to hide it but at home it just comes out it makes life interesting.


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03 Jul 2010, 8:03 am

I don't really have emotions. Occasionally I'll feel anger or frustration, but generally I just am.

If someone asks how I am doing, I never know how to answer. I'm not happy or joyful or sad or anything. I just am.



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03 Jul 2010, 12:45 pm

What are "emotions"? Just kidding... I have them but they confuse me and it's a lot of effort to work them out, or display them and when I do try to show them, I'm fairly certain I get that part wrong.



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03 Jul 2010, 12:53 pm

Up until I was 14 I would cry over the slightest thing that went wrong but then after I aged 15 I lost all of my sad emotions, I still get extremely excited though, so I guess that's good.