Thread: I feel hollow.
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Old Sep 11, 2013, 10:41 AM
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I do... It's such an inconsistent thing for me that sometimes I'm allowed to forget, but when I remember it gets worse. I try to go with the flow, be in the moment, so to speak. This helps me to just accept that I'm just as allowed to feel happiness or excitement as I am allowed to feel worried or scared. Sometimes I find that just by acknowledging that I feel a certain way allows me to either move past it or to find peace with it.

I've tried to create a situation in my mind that when I actually feel nothing, or I feel very lowly, I go find something that will make me feel a strong emotion again, bt I try to look for things that might make me feel happiness or excitement instead of fear, pain, or anger. Sometimes it seems easier to go for pain or fear... I try drawing, play a game, turn on music and dance like a silly person until I laugh. I go and make faces in the mirror until I laugh...

I just figure that if I am going to make myself feel an emotion, why not try to make it a pleasant one? Or one that will benefit my health. I know sometimes certain 'positive' become unpleasant with unfamiliarity or with the idea that it can be taken away by something devastating... but things are in a constant state of change so the happiness won't stay for ever, neither with the nothingness, or the unhappiness.

Best wishes.