Is it normal that i can physically feel my emotions?

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For more context, I can physically feel my emotions, not just in a sense where I'm sad and I experience sad, but in a sense where I'm sad and I can physically touch it. For example, when I'm Happy, I can feel a pleasant warmth in my noggin, or when I'm angry, I can feel a shaky weakness in my arms. I can also feel more abstract emotions physically. For example whenever I feel lonely, I can feel a pressure weighing down on my chest, or if I feel (I don't know what it's called but it's the feeling you get when you really don't want to do something, but you have to), I can feel a kind of frosty sting between my eyes.

Basically, what I want to know is if everybody feels this, or just me.

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  • litelander8
    3 years ago

    Yes. We are all humans.

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  • raisinbran
    3 years ago

    You’re a super hero. That’s how super powers work.

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  • ellnell
    3 years ago

    Umm yes. Anxiety gives me lots of physical symptoms, general emotions give physical symptoms too. I think they do for everyone but most people aren't so aware of it.

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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    I've seen temperature readings of the body going through emotions, warmth and coldness appear typically in the head and upper torso

    Your brain secretes chemicals like adrenaline and dopamine as a catalyst of emotions (processing information that has an impact on your psyche is what determines if you'll have an emotive response)

    I think it's a sign of being self aware and intelligent if you can acknowledge these emotions as they're happening and not get swept up in them as some people do as an excuse (think of those lunk heads who get into fights at bars or whatever over trivial things, almost always they play it like "well I was mad so I was justified in assaulting them, even if I'm getting arrested for it" like no, you gave into your emotions and impeded on someone's right to exist, that's why you're getting arrested)

    It can also keep you from getting your hopes up, getting excited/obsessive, it keeps you humble which undoubtedly helps

    I say it's a sign of mental health and development to read your emotions, but I'm not sure if I would say it's normal as there are a lot of people across the populous as a whole who have and haven't developed in this way, and it can be developed at any stage of life

    It's almost touching a grey area, if you define it as normal you're saying development and entropy are the intrinsic paths of the universe (which I adhere to) and if you define it as not normal then you're saying it's better to remain as close to original as possible (which a lot of people do act like but to me that's just glorifying stagnancy, but nature tends to follow the path of least resistance so I do see it as a "normal" path as well, just a less enriching, more materialistic path)

    I would say that development is yang and stagnancy is yin (not masculine and feminine but more like positive and negative, proton and electron, in like a karmic path you can take)

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    • LloydAsher
      3 years ago

      I'm not even gonna go down that rabbit hole of google fact checking it. I'm just gonna take your word for it.

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      • [Old Memory]
        3 years ago

        That's quite a compliment ☺

        I want to study psychology and do meaningful work with it one day

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        • LloydAsher
          3 years ago

          Many try to get a degree and then do fuck all with it. Best case scenario you gain mind powers and can fuck with people. Worst case you can use reverse psychology and fuck with people.

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          • [Old Memory]
            3 years ago

            That would be what I would call following a negatively charged karmic path

            My best case is working with the FBI or something as a psychologist, profiler, things like that

            I would not be like the psychologist from Terminator

            I still know what I do and I'm the only one who ultimately has to live with my choices, doing bad onto others because others have done bad onto me would mean I need to be analyzed more than be an analyzer

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            • LloydAsher
              3 years ago

              I was thinking psychologist from the anchorman 2.

              Do whatever you want with a degree as long as you can pay back the debt. Not relying on the goverment (that started outrageous high college pricing) to bail you out.

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  • Jamie_Sulky
    3 years ago

    I think thats just called emotions

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  • Holzman_67
    3 years ago

    I get really trembly when I’m angry or upset.

    I remember once being dumped out of the blue by a girl I was completely smitten by, never saw it coming. It was like someone had taken all the air out of my chest. And the following day my body felt like I’d played a particularly tough game of rugby.

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