Emotional awareness poll

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How often do you have difficulty determining what you feel and/or why?

Almost all the time
6
12%
Often every day
6
12%
About every day
7
14%
At least every week
4
8%
Rarely
21
41%
Never
7
14%
 
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Emotional awareness poll

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:43 pm

I find I often have emotions without knowing why I have them, and I'm curious about how common this issue is. Although I realize TCS may not be the best sample, since 95% of TCS seems far more emotionally sick than average.

I often feel sad, angry, or even happy for no clear reason. If I think about it or talk about it, I can usually determine why, but it takes some effort. There are times when I'm entirely unaware of what I am feeling. Many times I have been talking to somebody who says I'm depressed, and that takes me by surprise. Then I come to realize that I am feeling depressed. My voice changes when I'm depressed, which is something others often notice before I do. Less commonly, people tell me I seem cheerful when I feel terrible, usually in a social situation where I'm supposed to be cheerful.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby Jack Road » Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:47 pm

Tesseracts wrote:95% of TCS seems far more emotionally sick than average.


I'd say we are about the same as any other group. A bit more honest in our relative anonymity. But still.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby Australia » Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:54 am

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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby JamishT » Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:39 am

Tesseracts wrote:I often feel sad, angry, or even happy for no clear reason.



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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby DashaBlade » Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:43 am

I usually know what I feel like. As to why, well... I generally assume it's hormonal imbalance if I have no other explanation, but I usually have a good idea as to the whys. Like, right now I feel irritated at the Universe, and it's due to me being in the middle of having a migraine. Which is, fittingly enough, probably due to hormonal imbalance.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby Blackfish » Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:46 am

Tesseracts wrote:I often feel sad, angry, or even happy for no clear reason. If I think about it or talk about it, I can usually determine why, but it takes some effort.

I definitely empathize. I've realized at some point this year that what's happening around and to me has very little bearing on what I'm feeling at a particular moment. Like I might wake up and feel irritated, depressed or generally numb the entire day, even if it's payday, get professional affirmation or things just generally fall my way. Other days I have a vague sense of contentment, even euphoria even if it's hot as the Devil's asscrack, I meet some asshole drivers on the road or my family is again convulsed in a drama I've seen play out a hundred times.

I've given up trying to make sense of it. On the bad days I just cling to the iron certainty that "this, too, shall pass".
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby jbobsully11 » Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:14 pm

I don't usually have trouble figuring out how I feel, but there have been times when I've felt anxious or depressed for no reason, or happy when I definitely had reason not to be.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby NotCIAAgent » Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:39 pm

There's no "evry tiem" option.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby CarrieVS » Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:02 pm

I didn't answer 'never' because that's a stronger assertion than my decidedly fallible memory can substantiate, but I can't recall any times I've not known why I'm feeling something. My emotions are pretty straightforward: I experience a thing and then I feel something about it. I tend to feel things very intensely so maybe that has to do with it. I have no idea how normal that is or isn't.

I do get taken by surprise by people asking me why I'm sad, but that's just because my 'neutral' expression is quite serious so people who smile unless something's wrong tend to think I'm sad when I'm not.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:39 pm

We need a "I'm not sure how I feel about this" option.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby AboveGL » Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:04 pm

DashaBlade wrote:I generally assume it's hormonal imbalance.


Same with me.

My mind often wonders and it's not unusual for those thoughts to be negative. However, I've gained some awareness of this process and the causes/triggers for these thoughts and I've been better at managing them.

I sometimes feel hyper or overexcited. Not positively, mind you. It's excitement (or anxiety) combined with exhaustion and I often get it at work. I doubt that requires any explanation, nor am I the only one at my workplace who feels that way.

Apart from that, I might be more emotionally aware than I realised.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby jbobsully11 » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:15 am

CarrieVS wrote:I do get taken by surprise by people asking me why I'm sad, but that's just because my 'neutral' expression is quite serious so people who smile unless something's wrong tend to think I'm sad when I'm not.

That happens to me sometimes, too (this morning, most recently). It makes me think of an entry from this Christina H article.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby Andropov4 » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:21 am

I get asked whether or not I'm angry constantly. It would seem my natural expression is one of homicidal rage.
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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby JamesT » Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:22 pm

I'm not unbalanced. My emotions are perfectly logical. I DON'T HAVE MOOD SWINGS, STOP JUDGING ME YOU FUCKERS.

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Re: Emotional awareness poll

Postby Tesseracts » Mon Aug 01, 2016 3:41 pm

I woke up this morning feeling angry for no reason at all and I'm still angry. Since it was the morning I don't think anything could have possibly happened to inspire anger, unless somebody screwed me over in a dream or something. I still don't know if this is normal.
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