How do you deal with undesired emotions?

[EHKOS]

Walks, horrorcore rap at full volume, and copious amounts of sitcoms. Also hanging with a close family member doesn't hurt.

Expand your brain. Hard to find hobbies or interests when you do the same routines all the time. Find new music, listen to philosophy, research quantum mechanics, go hit on girls at a bar, look into religions, just find out what works for you. For example I had heard Aliester Crowley mentioned alot, so I researched into him last month, which lead to a week looking into what the internet has a black magick/occult.

This too. I have an interest in psychology(yes it came from VTMB). One night I felt bad so I looked up Jack the Ripper, now I have my own theory/psychoanalysis about the individual.

 

[talideon]

Currently, antidepressants. Effexor, specifically.

No, it's not a solution, but at least it lets me function again so I can work through my shit and get things in order again, which is a solution. Thankfully, aside from some irritating taste distortion (permanent salty taste in my mouth, and my tastebuds are refusing to pick up sour tastes), I've been lucky with side effects.

 

[Skeleon]

I think of how much better I have it than most people alive or dead have or had it. Basing my own self-worth on the suffering of others? Petty perhaps, but it works. It also helps remind me that I'm not that special for accomplishing what I have; that we need to give others opportunities to achieve for themselves if we want the world to have even just the tiniest semblance of fairness to it and that this takes a lot of investment to happen. The world fucking sucks[footnote]In some respects. In others, it's incredibly beautiful. But one thing it isn't: Fair.[/footnote] and I've won one of the upper mid-range lottery prizes. If that's not something to be happy about then I dunno what is.

 

[lacktheknack]

You grab those emotions and you HUG them. You SQUEEZE them until they choke. Then you incorporate them into the depths of your soul and weep about them, refusing to let them go and generally manhandling them non-stop.

They eventually get frightened and run away.

NOTE: Don't actually try this if you're depressed. My emotional responses to things are weird.

 

[Flutterguy]

Currently, antidepressants. Effexor, specifically.

No, it's not a solution, but at least it lets me function again so I can work through my shit and get things in order again, which is a solution. Thankfully, aside from some irritating taste distortion (permanent salty taste in my mouth, and my tastebuds are refusing to pick up sour tastes), I've been lucky with side effects.

Aye, I'm sure you know already, but not a good trip man. I was on one, forget the brand, for roughly a month. Felt to me like all my emotions were just getting numb. I feel sorry for anyone forced to take pills by their parents. I have a friend in his early twenties whose parents had put in a psych ward because they are strongly christian and he was being too philosophical and starting to eat less. Took two weeks to be released. Now he has multiple medications, doesn't hold conversation, and smokes 2 packs a day. Great.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

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I usually listen to either Nyan Cat or Max Coveri's Running in the 90s for anywhere between 12 and 30 hours straight while Pokemon grinding. Any undesired emotions are usually forgotten about in that amount of time.

Listening to either while playing Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn is an acceptable substitute.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

When you put so much emphasis on meaning it becomes very easy to be dissatisfied with your life and with yourself. To paraphrase the zen and Jedi masters, "Peace comes when you stop grasping." We all feel unimportant at times, even the people who seem so much more on top of everything than you. I do not think of myself as an important person, but that doesn't really bother me. I don't need to be important. I don't have any use for accolades, all I want is a quiet little corner where I can think and read and maybe share a drink with a friend.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I began going to university straight out of high school a few months ago. And it's been a fun ride so far, but sometimes when I'm alone, or something I perceive as sad happens, these feelings pop up that make me feel like the least accomplished human on the planet, save my good grades in high school. Considering my family's hopes run on me graduating from university, I feel like I have to meet their expectations, but it just feels like a suffocatingly heavy weight on my shoulders.

Does your university have a counselling service you can use? Or talk to a personal tutor. If you struggle to talk about this stuff with your friends, something a bit more impartial/professional might not be a bad idea.

Yeah, the university offers counselling services for free as far as I know. So I certainly have somewhere to go if I start feeling worse.

The suggestions, advice, and motivational words from all of you definitely are helping to get me back on track. Thanks to all of you, though I unfortunately can't really specifically quote people without it taking a little too long.

 

[Abomination]

There is some great advice here.

I dance around them. Dancy, dancy. And then they go away.

When I feel an emotion coming along I swallow a cement pill the size of a brick and adjust my scrotum slightly.

Then I go punch a bear to death.

But seriously though.

Hey, I'm being honest. Nonchalance and a sense of humor are great remedies.

Believe me I know, but there is no substitute for physical and mental exercises.

There's a reason there are no bears (left) in New Zealand.

I got sad a lot.