Heavy feelings

[Falkor]

Hello,

Do you often feel that you are getting too heavily emotions or heavy feelings inside you? Like when you feel sad or angry, or really exciting about something.

I'm getting those moments a lot, and sometimes I sink too deep in the water.
I feel sad and It's like I cannot escape out of it and when I'm down/depressed I cannot switch to an uplifting mood again, well. very slowly processing it does.

I can also be very happy about something, that I forget about the whole situation and I can start dancing and be extremely happy ::

I always percieve everything in the extreme conception.
When someone makes a bad comment
''You are ugly or you can't sing or you are a waste of time''
I can think about it for weeks and I cannot stop thinking about it.

How about you guys?

 

[Nanita]

Yeah I recognize it. I get extremely sad, or extremely happy/ecstatic, and both feelings can actually happen in one day. I have been wondering if I am perhaps slighty manic-depressive because of this... But I don´t think I am though!?
If someone says something personal about me, I also think about it again and again. A relative recently said to me "aren´t you too skinny?", and it really hurt me, because yes I am thin but I haven´t chosen my body, right.. And I kept thinking this comment to myself over and over, and thinking "am I really so skinny that people think it´s ugly??" & "why would that person say this to me? to hurt me or just because she doesn´t think before she speaks??" And so on!!
All in all I think it´s EASIER not to talk to people, ever! But that´s too lonely right, so I guess I will never avoid hurtful comments.

 

[Phoenixx]

Yeah, I've been getting heavy emotions a lot recently too. With negative comments, I always think about them for weeks. They always send me into depression and it takes me forever to get out. I never get overly happy though. Maybe it's because I have too many negative feelings still in my system? When I'm happy, it feels great, but it only lasts a day or two and then I'm back crashing into being either depressed, angry, or just nothing.

 

[Vampayah88]

I rarely get over excited/happy, but if someone makes a negative comment about me or I say something, do something stupid or the silliest thing happens that i shouldnt even pay much attention to, I'll obsess over that for days or weeks and analyze it in every possible way. I wish I wouldn't get so easily affected by everything, I wish i had the ability to not give a ****. Life would be so much easier.

 

[socialorphan]

For me I always seem to be at one extreme or the other. I'm either really happy or really down or just really bored.

I don't tend to dwell on things after they happen, mostly because I am usually so upset with it that I just block it out. Which I'm sure is not healthy.

And most of the time when I am happy it's just because I don't have anything to make me sad. Which is not very often

 

[Falkor]

Yeah I recognize it. I get extremely sad, or extremely happy/ecstatic, and both feelings can actually happen in one day. I have been wondering if I am perhaps slighty manic-depressive because of this... But I don´t think I am though!?
If someone says something personal about me, I also think about it again and again. A relative recently said to me "aren´t you too skinny?", and it really hurt me, because yes I am thin but I haven´t chosen my body, right.. And I kept thinking this comment to myself over and over, and thinking "am I really so skinny that people think it´s ugly??" & "why would that person say this to me? to hurt me or just because she doesn´t think before she speaks??" And so on!!
All in all I think it´s EASIER not to talk to people, ever! But that´s too lonely right, so I guess I will never avoid hurtful comments.

Manic-depression is very similar to these feelings indeed, also Bipolar disorder.
I don't know if Social Anxiety is related to these mood swings, you know it looks like SA is so much more than just anxiety... We over-think, we have a lot of emotions (our anxiety level is really high too, so i bet it's not only feeling scared, also the other emotions) and people with SA are very creative i think too. I hope social anxiety gets more research, we all have so many things we can relate to.

And about being skinny, I know what you mean hun, people call me skinny all the time, I am under-weighted, so people ask me if I got an eating disorder or call me miss bones.. like woot? I'm not having an eating disorder I'm just thin, It's just the way my posture is. I'm trying to gain weight though.

And you're right, better recieving negative comments than avoid it, cuz that's the major problem of social anxiety. We'll beter learn to deal with it.

 

[Falkor]

I rarely get over excited/happy, but if someone makes a negative comment about me or I say something, do something stupid or the silliest thing happens that i shouldnt even pay much attention to, I'll obsess over that for days or weeks and analyze it in every possible way. I wish I wouldn't get so easily affected by everything, I wish i had the ability to not give a ****. Life would be so much easier.

I can so much relate to what you said. I get affected by the smallest things happening, I make it too big.

 

[JosephG]

hmm I could use some of them.
I don't feel much of anything anymore.