If you could, would you turn off your emotional functioning?
Question:
Sometimes emotions control a person especially when it comes to depression, anger or intense euphoria and anxiety, all are hard in relationships. It's terribly confusing trying to explain these feelings to myself in order to fix it with rational. If I was a teenager, I could just write it off as a hormonal issue and go on with my day, but I'm not.
Is there a way to numb my emotions since reason and logic is a weak opponent?
Answers:
It is never wise to turn off ur emotions. You "mess up" the psychological structure in your brain. All that will happen is that you'll wind up depressed because you're hiding your feelings and not dealing with your problems. You may even become suicidal. In a nutshell, it is impossible to turn off your emotions
i wish i could turn off my emotional functioning. if i did, i would be unstoppable
o god yes would i ...
Well, i can say that everyone must have gone thru with what have you're feeling at right now. its just that they have come to rationalize whats emotional and whats logical. both are important factors for humanity functioning i guess, cos w/out the other how could you balanced out the situation you are with. If its all a matter of thinking then do u think that this world will function as it is ,w/out love, joy , even suffering and death, and if its all feeling then, how could be the proper way of living should be? so for me. God gave us Body (Mind) for reasoning, Soul (Heart) for feeling, and spirit for us to get connected with HIm our Creator.
As per your question. I WOULDNT! .:)
There are medications that can numb you out, but it's not healthy. Emotions are an important part of life. I wouldn't want to shut them off, but I've had periods in my life where it sounded good.
I dont know if I would or not because than I would not feel any joy in my life. Even though thats far and in between I would feel like Im dead inside like all the time
On the other hand I wouldnt feel like garbage a lot of the time and I wouldnt want to commit suicide a lot of the time either.
I agree with you, if it were up to me to choose between feeling emotions and not feeling them, I would choose not to be able to feel them because, I am an overly emotional person and it gets so overwhelming sometimes that I make stupid decisions without thinking about the consequences because i am taken over by my emotions. The only way to numb your emotions is taking drugs, but thats really not a good way to cope with your emotions. I wish there was a better way, but i guess it is just something that you just have to "deal with" which sucks because then u ask well, how do u deal with it and no one has an answer for that.
I'm military and when you go through training you learn to shut your emotions down. I lost my mom. She died Aug 30, 06. I seen my wing man get killed before my eyes. Your body goes into survivor mode and the emotional feelings get shut down. The down side I suffer from PTSD. Under doctor's care and meds.
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