[continuosly blue]

Hi all. When it comes down to it my emotions rule my life. I'm a very emotional person. Seems like all my decisions are based on emotion. I'm dealing with somebody now who seems to have the emotions of a robot , or a computer which she's in love with. I don't want to feel so I can go on with my life In a realistic and logical fashion. How do you stop feeling all these emotions ? I want to be cold as ice.

[Freewilled]

I feel like that, too. Like life would be so much easier if I could just let things roll of my back and remain unaffected. I told my T that this would be my definition of "strength" and that its what I aspire to - that it seems like in my "real life" other people aren't so affected and I'm super oversensitive.

He didn't seem impressed and said it sounded more like I'm wanting to be "emotionally numb" .... UM.....yes!! What's so wrong with that? Ugh.

[tigerlily84]

Thank you for this post.

Can I just say me three? I hate feeling so emotional all the time. It's like staring into the sun and not being able to look away. My brother is easy-going and things just roll off of him - I want to be like that. Instead I freak out and panic about every single thing. Life is just so damn overwhelming.

[JadeAmethyst]

Emotionally numb, life has no flavor, color, sounds, or sense of connection, from the inside out....this I know from experience. It is an opaque, and cardboard figure of nonexistence and life won't allow you to stay there forever. I couldn't run or hide from myself. There was no amount of over or under compensation that would drowned the over sensitivity that I felt. Believe me I tried for a long time. So many times I compared myself to those others who seemed to have things "roll off their backs" but why? Seems now at this point in my own life, that my sensitivities have a lot to teach me about myself and others and how connected we all are.
But, that's my two cents worth, and my experience today. I'm hoping this will be helpful to someone who reads it.

all my best to you all
Jade

I've been trying my whole like to be like Mr. Spock. Feels nothing. Unfortunately, I've failed at it every time. I try to have a heart of stone, but I'm human, and humans are emotional beings.