Is it better to feel nothing or too much

[trying ungracefully]

I feel too much and it causes a lot of suicidal thoughts. I also felt nothing a lot through out my life before the right medication but I don't remember if it felt better than this.i voted nothing though

 

[alstroemeria55]

Personally I would probably say nothing because when it's nothing I at least function and when it's too much I start SH myself.

 

[JustBe]

There's no match, there is some peace of mind when you feel absolutely nothing.

 

[derpyderpins]

The temptation is to think whatever you aren't currently going through is better.

Right now I'm more on the feeling "nothing side," so I almost said it's better to feel too much.

But if I'm being honest, that's not true. Feeling nothing is a struggle on its own but it's way better than experiencing the worst there is.

 

[violetforever]

nothing but it might not even matter when both options bring the same result.

 

[scordatura]

After feeling too much, feeling nothing is a relief.... for a while, but it comes with some crushing hollowness.

 

[socksnsandles]

nothing. thats what a lot of drugs are designed to do.

 

[boyafraid]

In my case I'd rather feel nothing. Feeling nothing is awful too but I feel that it's easy to deal with. When I feel too much, doing the most basic things can feel super overwhelming.

 

[copioushopelessness]

At least when I felt too much I felt like I had reasons to live. Feeling nothing made me give up. Ive lost everything. Both suck.

 

[Zura]

nothing for me becuause i think if i feel too much i will get effected easily by very little and minor things

 

[trying ungracefully]

nothing. thats what a lot of drugs are designed to do.

I feel like me starting Wellbutrin made my emotions worse. I've been terrible since I started and my anxiety is causing so many feelings. I want to just straight up ask my psychiatrist to numb me with the prescriptions lol.

At least when I felt too much I felt like I had reasons to live. Feeling nothing made me give up. Ive lost everything. Both suck.

True. I want to die but not really when I'm feeling too much because I want to stay and make memories.

 

[deny_conformity]

As someone who largely feels nothing I would argue feeling too much is better. I feel a constant numbness that makes me question what the point of life is, I'm so bored of life most of the time that I think about suicide as a release from the nothingness.

 

[ThunderBringer]

Personally I'd rather feel something than nothing. Even when that something has the potential to hurt like hell, I think it's better than feeling like a robot. When I felt nothing for months on end I would end up self harming in order to feel something, anything. It made me desperate, even more so when the self harming didn't even help much. Too much makes me feel like I'm a dumb baby and that I'm not built to be around people, but I would really rather that than emotionally paused.

 

[FadingSnowFake]

I saw too late this is posted in the recovery section and voted nothing as a person who is not in recovery. For me, allowing feelings is opening myself up to being killed again on the inside, while I'm already dead and just can't or won't go there again.

 

[thelostautistic]

As painful as it is to feel my emotions so deeply I'd rather feel them than nothing at all. I don't like feeling numb and unable to access my emotions.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It's difficult to answer- because there is good and bad to both. Right now, I feel fairly neutral and numb but then, I'm also enjoying that sensation of feeling calm and relaxed. On the other hand, life can feel bland and there's less motivation because of caring less to do things. Alternatively, heightened emotions can be positive as well as negative. We can be full of joy and excitement about something.

I suppose at the most intensely emotional times, I've wished I could calm down more than the reverse. That during more numb moments, I wished I could feel something. Although, I'm not sure I've gone long periods feeling nothing, so maybe I can't tell.

 

[SoLowHollow48]

I feel that the essence of being human is to feel too much, it's to feel everything and then ponder about those things. Cry, scream, laugh, or smile about it all.

After spending time with a depressed person, I found that the suicide ideations came when she felt nothing at all. When everything felt numb and nothing felt like anything at all.

But the roots of this numbness is truly, feeling too much and not knowing what to do with it. Like having a sugar high and then crashing. You feel so much and you get so tired, your head eventually stops working.

Her appetite changed, she slept all the time, she couldn't do anything she used to be interested in and the worst of all, she'd try anything to feel something again. That's when shit hit the fan.

So, my conclusion is that, you should be proud and passionate that you can still feel so much. To feel pain, sorrow, anger, betrayal, everything--because that's how you know that you still look for an escape. You're still finding ways to get out. If you can feel then you can think.

You still think and I hope that you're able to power through the abuse, to whatever shit you're dealing with right now so you'll never get to that point where you feel absolutely nothing.

 

[calebzz1]

That's a good question.

I think that it is better to feel nothing, that's my default for most days as I go through my complex medical condition and I realize that my whole life is centered around being barely able to see.

I try to make the most out of everything at least.

My mom is different and is a very emotional person due to having Bipolar I with psychotic features.

She crashes out over the smallest of inconvenciences while I remain stoic through everything, apathy is my best friend.

I don't have time to relax and always feel wired.

I'm a serious and pragmatic person due to what I'm dealing with, unfortunately.

I wish I could be more emotional at times but I know when times are tough I'm the type of man to be focused and not emotional in the slightest.

 

[pumpkinboy]

I feel too much and it causes a lot of suicidal thoughts. I also felt nothing a lot through out my life before the right medication but I don't remember if it felt better than this.i voted nothing though

I think feeling is important it gives me a drive to try and do something positive about my life yeah it sucks but i still got business to do like learning to backflip and actually becoming a engineer