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Take each emotion at its extreme. Which would you hate feeling the most? You can include physical symptoms in your decision, e.g. some get intense headaches because of anger.
Apologies if I've forgotten something.
| Anger | 14 | |
| Sadness | 19 | |
| Anxiety | 37 | |
| Other | 5 |
I just think it's interesting that anger isn't so hated. I think it has a way of justifying itself and it's almost an empowering emotion... even if it motivates you to do destructive things. Angry people usually feel justified in their anger, but anxiety is always an unwanted feeling. It makes you feel weak and unable to control your physical reactions.
And dread, like RR Panda mentioned - when you feel that drop in the pit of your stomach - is pretty unpleasant.
I agree with those people who said anxiety. Anxiety is cyclical. It builds on itself and creates a loop that is hard to break out of. It's also the one I have most experience with. I rarely get significant bouts of sadness or anger or loneliness or regret or jealousy or hate (and when I do they're somehow connected to the feeling of anxiety), because I have coping strategies that work for me to deal with those feelings. I don't have a coping strategy that even comes close to working for anxiety.
It links to Lorna's idea that anxiety doesn't really have any sort of outlet. By definition, anxiety makes me feel repressed and helpless which makes me immune to any attempts to cope with it.
Depending on whether or not you can call shyness an emotion - or, if it is an emotion, an emotion that is distinct from anxiety - shyness is the only one I can think of that I can put on the same plane.
Can I ask what those strategies for anxiety are? I'm suffering from it quite a bit lately and anything would be super helpful. But I understand if you'd rather not share because it's personal or something like that.
For anxiety, I'm afraid I can't help you any more than I can help myself. Remembering that no negative feeling lasts forever and that your life is not less valuable just because you find it difficult to interact with society right now... that can help some people, and it helps me with sadness, but it doesn't help me with anxiety. Anxiety is the one that really hits me.
Dread, such as when you suddenly realise something awful, like you missed the train and you have to pay another £32 for an any time ticket despite the ticket you bought previously for that specific train being a mere £14...fuck you arriva trains...dicks...
Out of those three anxiety would be the worst for me. It's a feeling which you can't do much about; you have to be in that state until it goes away, and that to me is unbearable. The heart rate going way up, the breathing being uncontrollable, the uneasiness of the mind, being overcome by feelings of fear, imminent death, loss of control, paranoia. No! I'd much rather be angry and punch some walls and break glass (possibly fingers too), or be crying copiously, wallowing in a state of profound sadness. These two are emotions for which you have outlets to relieve their intensity. Intense anger, when you act on it, is such a rush that you hardly even remember what happened after it's gone. Another one that I'd hate to feel to the extreme would be jealousy.
"These two are emotions for which you have outlets to relieve their intensity."
That's a very interesting observation! And it's true, really. The physical outlets for anxiety only seem to make it even more unbearable, like pacing or similar.
I agree with both you and kingofcarrotflowers. Anxiety is the worst for me too.
Anxiety, it's the only feeling I've known that can have a physical effect on me, short breath, sickness and at worst depersonalization
My mind processes things differently and so I don't get these emotions in severe amounts.
Sometimes my emotions just shut off when I have to deal with a lot of stress. When I was little I really didn't feel a lot of anything.
Not sure if this answer works for you. I use to become suicidal when getting any sexual stimulation but usually my emotions are like a stagnant pond. I think self loathing maybe.
My emotions seem to manifest themselves in different ways. I think my anger just gives me a violent mind, I am obsessive, and sometimes when I cant figure out how to react emotionally I shut down.
Anger. I have no outlet for it. It builds up inside of me and just continues to grow. Out of anger, when I'm alone, I will rake my fingernails down my skin and make myself bleed, I'll scream, punch things, bang objects against my head, hold myself in a fetal position shaking, etc. I have no idea how to relieve myself of the pain that anger can cause me. I'll cry for hours until my head and eyes are throbbing. It'll be so intense that I'll contemplate suicide. I can hardly handle depression and I can tolerate anxiety to an extent, but anger is on a whole different playing field for me.
Jealousy, because there's no point. Nothing good comes out of it. Sadness makes you cherish the good times. Anger I believe is important, it helps you establish boundaries. As for anxiety a bit of fear is healthy right?
That would have to be regret for me. The reason is that usually you regret something that you did that you can't change in the past no matter how much you think of better ways you could have handled the situation. Sure you can eventually get over it, accept the regret and use it to be better prepared for the next time but the truth still remains that a different outcome might have happened had you reacted in the way you wish you did.
For me it's anger. If I make a decision too quickly, I know that anger played a big part in the total decision. For that reason, that was my reply.
Of course you can correct any that you don't like about yourself.
Do your best to be honest in every way.