Emotions are like a Self Poison.?

Emotions are like a Self Poison.?

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i was always ruled by my emotions and they often caused depression. got myself off anti depressants after many years. something that really helped was a quote from a book i read:"emotions are not fact"simple really. what it meant for me was that i had always believed that what i was feeling was my reality, was the absolute truth for me. Now i understand that my emtions can be false, misleading and over the top wrong. so while i still listen to my emotions, i try to analyse the situation and see it for what it really is. and also not get so heavily invested in perfect outcomes. and to choose my battles.also watched "down the rabbit hole", which is the longer more in depth version of "what the bleep". its pretty heavy going re physics and meta physics, but really helped me to shed a life long comfort zone of being depressed. Source(s):
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By : Soo Depressio-topics.com : Seasonal Depression Teen Depression Managing Moods: Understanding and Overcoming Mood Disorders Depression and Child


I agree with emotions playing a major role in how we behave...But I have been diagnosed with depression and I have some seriously thick skin. It seems brain chemistry and genetics plays a much larger role when it comes to depression.

by K king

Uncontrolled emotions are the bane of humanity. They too often keep us in a state of confusion, with the feeling of being helpless to have them stop. The more unfortunate part of this scene is; those emotions are permanently embedded within the storage area of the mind. They can come back and haunt you at some later time.. Unknowingly they can be triggered and cause a reaction you often times wonder why or where the reaction came from.The results are self evident if anyone reads many of the questions asked here in answers.All those emotions are stored in symbolic form. Thus we are not able to understand them at the conscious level. Your therapist is unable to show you how to get rid of them also. He/she would most certainly like to be able to do so but, is not included in their curriculum. There is a method available however and it does allow the dumping of those stored emotions. Allowing someone to recover many of the traits they felt have been permanently lost to them.

by Mr Cricket Depressio-topics.com : Seasonal Depression Teen Depression Managing Moods: Understanding and Overcoming Mood Disorders Depression and Child


I don't agree. Emotions are a natural and necessary part of who we are. Labling emotions as being some kind of "self poison" is just defeating to anyone trying to overcome depression. Why would you want to do that? think about it, seriously. Self poison? how horrible and hopeless if I were to believe a statement like this, or to even think in those terms.A person needs to understand that emotions are not the enemy, it's what you do with the emotion- how you choose to respond to it. It's okay to feel an emotion. Emotions are a part of who we are. Feel it, and let it go. It's okay. Really.

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well.. we all have our own defense mechanism on negative feelings. Emotion is one of the way we reflect or to show what we really feel or how we think in a situation. releasing emotion is like the behavior to let people and ourselves understand more about what is going on around us. it is just the way we are.somehow, when we are facing sadness or anxious feelings, we are actually going through the "Sad Tasks"- Denail, Anger, Argue, Sad, Accept. Once we get throuh the process, we would accept the sadness, be aware of it, and over come with the more flexible abilities for our next situation. it causes more possitive influences of the sad experience and lessen the harm it brings us.To feel sad(the emotion) is the best way we express our negative feelings. and some ppl are stuck in the first stage, Denail, by subpressing or trying to forget or ignore the negative feelings. Those might actually make our conscious of sad feelings become unconscious. then it would affect us even more while we dont even notice that. in some cases, this is one of the factors of being maladaptive in our daily life, and causesing some mental disorder. if we could "move on", then it would be great, but we could neglect how we actually feel in our heart, coz that matters the most afterall. that's the true self of us. ignoring our true feelings might be dangerous to our mental health.if we are not okay to express our emotion in some situations, all we need to do is to learn how to cope with the sadness and stress, and perhaps to check out what better EQ skills could work with us =)in the end, if you find our problems have been bothering you for long, mabe it's time for you to consider seeking professional help.

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"Emotions" is a very broad category. Joy is an emotion. So is love. So is happiness. So is contentment. None of those are self-poison (oh, OK, love can be, if it's unhealthy love...). Depression is a physical change in the biochemistry of the entire nervous system. Is that a self-poison? Maybe. Does that mean the person with depression is at fault for having depression? Not at all. No more than the person with diabetes is at fault for having diabetes, or the person with seizures is at fault for having seizures. Depression is an illness which requires treatment. Simple as that, although it isn't at all a simple illness.

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