Emotions.

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When you experience an emotion, do you find it overwhelming?

I tend to block off my emotions where possible, because they overwhelm me and give me secondary emotions to deal with.

For example, my support worker made me laugh yesterday (I hardly ever laugh). After that I was agitated and couldn't stop replaying the laughter "emotion" in my head over and over again, it was distressing for some reason.

I am not normally emotional, but when I am I really want to get out of it.

I often wish I were an android that could delete emtions like system files.

I often feel emotions very strongly and sometimes, I too, wish that I could block them off to an extent. If I feel sad, then it can be a quick downward spiral into secondary emotions (hopelessness, worthlessness etc) and I have crying fits. They are very stressful but don't last long.

If I'm nervous, it might go into a full blown panic where I scream and cry, and rock back and forth in fear. Like the other week when I was studying in my room after school (I attend a residential special school) and found that I was stuck on my chemistry homework and my confidence faltered. Unfortunately, most of the teachers leave after an hour or so and my chemistry teacher wasn't present no matter where I looked for him. I panicked about not being able to do the homework and remembered a time when a student in my class called me "stupid boy" and laughed in my face during a maths lesson. I was agitated and couldn't stop replaying his words in my mind over and over again, thinking that I was unable to complete my assignment, and overwhelmed by my work and emotions. I burst into tears and started to rock back and forth. After a few minutes, it turned into a meltdown where I was biting and hitting myself, and banging my head against my desk.

Sometimes, I wish that I could eliminate my emotions in certain situations to prevent events like that from occurring.

Yes. Apparently we don't process them efficiently for whatever reason and they can really foul everything up.

Yes, with inherited bipolar depression alot. Depression, happiness and frustration are my first emotions. Without proper medications, I harm myself violently and cannot function well at all.

It depends. When I'm excited or happy... sometimes just general happiness, I have to flap my arms and make noises or wring my wrists rapidly to let it out. If I'm angry, I get this huge burst inside me that's ready to explode like a volcano. I end up slamming things, throwing things and all that as well. It angers my parents sometimes because they don't really understand how hard it is for me to handle all that distress. :/

I don't have bipolar disorder or anything though. I think it's just part of my built up anger and frustrations I've kept inside. My mom told me that one day, someone is going to make me so mad that I'm going to let them have it. I don't think it's happened yet though. Also, if something is frustrating, I'm more likely to throw a fit and frantically try to get rid of that frustration. For example, I got frustrated by losing my headphones a while ago. It was to the point where I was complaining about it and running frantically around trying to find them and freaking out almost. I did end up finding them though.

It's also harder for me because NaNoWriMo just started, and I'm a little nervous about that. D:

I push them away- especially when I'm around other people. Emotion clouds judgement.

I have to flap my arms, clap, or make noises when I am happy.

Stress or anger can make me meltdown pretty quickly. I'll be reduced to non-verbal noises and flailing so quickly I don't even have time to change tasks and walkaway.

I don't even thou I don't display emotions a whole lot