Lorraine Manca

Does anyone get completely exhausted from intense emotions? Its so annoying!

Kinetik

This is where good medication comes in. I was continually high-strung until I found the right one. I would be on-edge constantly and feel emotionally drained at the end of every day, to the point of sleeping 11-12 hours a night from sheer exhaustion.

Are you taking anything now? If not, you might consider looking into it.

freestylemonster

Yeah for me my anti-depressants make me super happy and with happiness comes energy...So I use all my energy then I get tired and don't wanna do anything blah

Lorraine Manca

nope kinetik, i dont take anything. I've hesitated a lot about taking anything. Like it would make it all too official and documented. Its not even anxiety or saddness really, but extreme sensitivity. Its good to know there are at least three other people who know the general feeling. Maybe I'll suck it up and go to the doctor.

Fighter86

Yes, I do get intense emotions sometimes, I just vent them out, and it gets embarrassing sometimes, especially when it happens in the office, people probably think I'm sort of looney there, an intense type who doesn't have friends and break easily under little pressure. And its most embarrassing to be exposed as someone without friends.

Anubis

Whenever you experience "intense emotions", you're going through what psychologists call cognitive dissonance. Essentially, cognitive dissonance is when you hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously. For example, let's say you're in a party, but as a social phobe, you absolutely dread talking to people. If people stopped here, there would be no depression. However, MOST people hold another contradictory thought. That is, while they abhor talking to people, they acknowledge that it is probably wrong to be so avoidant and that talking to people is a vital part of growing and being a human being. Enter cognitive dissonance, intense emotion and eventually depression.

How do you solve it? You remove the cognitive dissonance by deciding which thought is more truthful to you. Pick one. Anyone. And then embrace it with all your heart. Don't be truth's bitch. Select YOUR truth and run by it. This is one of the hardest things us social phobes have doing. We hold to this belief that everyone has to be consistent with "truth" and that by examining the evidence around us, we can "magically" know who we are. Well, here's a news flash. Socially successful people don't bump into their identities! They willfully shape it themselves by choosing what truth to believe in.

I don't know if that helped, but it's just something I've been thinking about these past couple of days.

Jannah

Yea, I am extremely sensitive and I have bouts of anger which gets closer to hate, but I would rather not feel that way. I don't like feeling intense emotions.