Oh yeah, for sure, my emotions have all gotten less. Less high, less low, I've just chilled out in every direction
To you and @Dr. Wesker , how old are we talking about? Roughly after how many decades this becomes something you notice- and does it keep building up?
I'm in my mid 30s and I can agree I don't feel anywhere as intensely as I did ten years ago, but for me this is a bug, not a feature. So I'm really curious about how others have fared in this regard
It sounds like a BS answer, but it's true. My personal experience is that the older I've gotten, the less I'm affected by the world around me. My best guess is the experience of time can lend coping mechanisms, under the proper circumstances I'm sure.
That's a fair take. But I will say that we just grew a little older together, and I'll take your point to heart when dealing with others.
I get the sentiment, but what is it rooted in? Extreme experiences giving you a new perspective making old anxieties feel like nothing. That's just statistics. That's saying that the longer you live, the more likely you are to experience those kinds of things.
I used to be very empathic, I cared so much about the world and everyone in it. Making sure people were taken care of, and hoping for the best for everything. I would get depressed when bad things happened and I couldn't do anything about it. But as I've gotten older and the world has gotten so much worse and it keeps getting worse and worse. I find I've adopted an "It is what it is" attitude about nearly everything. I have zero faith in humanity and it's ability to over come the downward spiral we are in, and doubt we will still be here in 100 years, and frankly have gotten to the point were I feel that might be for the best. Time for the universe to hit reset and start again.
Things that work for me, not necessarily recommendations:
- Mindfulness practices
- Always be a little bit too busy for comfort, keeps you from dwelling on things
- Smoke; weed or tobacco, both help
- Deliberately cultivate positive self-talk, don't just uncritically accept whatever you mind tells you
For fear, anxiety, and panic, the 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise is amazing.
Med. I. Cation. Specifically Prozac. It works great for me, but we're all different. Since I've been on it, it's changed my life. So many things were attached to my mental health that I never knew.
Why would I want to do that? I wanna feel everything at the appropriate volume.
Then you pair it with a soundtrack that features songs providing an emotional counterbalance. If you're feeling depressed, play aggressive music. If you're feeling stressed, play happy music. If you're feeling manic, play desperate music, like hopeless love songs. If you're feeling angry, play something wistful and dreamy. If you're bored, play dance music. If you're restless, also play dance music, but push back the furniture and dance to it.
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say “Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?”
and if you can't change it, why worry? especially after you've done your best
and also antidepressants and or maybe lithium. ask your psychiatrist about it
Distraction is the best coping method. I listen to audiobooks instead of trying to sleep and I fall asleep faster without the constant stream of internal anxious chatter
It’s crazy but emotions are those things that CANT get lowered or hidden from ourselves … they will always find a way to go through . They are essentially what we are, the only thing I can think of to stop them is death.
Non serious answer: Birth control. More specifically, depo, or the off-brand variant. (In my experience, I had that affect. For that and many other reasons, I wouldn't advocate this drug as a true suggestion for anyone)
