How do you guys cope with emotions?  I know that I have my own ways but I was just curious what yours are.
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First, I try my best not to judge them. Emotions are just that, you can't make them right or wrong. It also depends on the type of emotion I happen to be feeling at the time. If I am angry, I will try and cool down before handling a situation that upsets me. I do this by taking a walk or doing some other physical activity, like housework and I do it vigourously. I find it is a good outlet to help me calm down. If I'm feeling sad, sometimes, I'll just go with the feeling and use it creatively, write a poem, listen to music. Sometimes, it's good to be reflective unless, of course, it's long-term and then you need help. I'll rent a funny movie or talk to a good friend over a cup  of tea. In both cases, it's a good time to learn and grow from your feelings and to help put things in perspective.
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I understand what you are feeling. I am very much like that myself. I think it happens because I take everything and everyone overly serious and i take everything to heart. I have learned that a good way to cope with sudden mood changes is to write your throughts/emotions down. I used a journal like an emotional logbook....what was the situation, what emotions did it cause and how severe where the emotions and how did i react? How did others react to my reaction? Things like that can make you discover a deeper reason for your moodswings which can help you learn how to control them better. Of course, counceling can help tremendously. It sounds like you let your environment control your emotions.....maybe that can be helped through journaling and counceling. Try it out, and see if you can figure out what causes you to change moods so quickly.....you might need to take a more objective approach to yourself.
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That sucks!  (to put it bluntly).  Be strong.  Rely on your friends.  Cry if you need to.  Write in a journal to get your feelings out.  Go out (do not sit home & mope).  Do stuff with friends...even if you aren't in the mood b/c little by little you'll do better.  Eventually the crying stops and it all works out.  It's hard but you'll be fine.
25111
your making me cry! i hope you will be able to get through your situation. of course its hard to deal with and dont let others try to tell you to get over it. its good your expressing your feelings outwards. i hope you share what you wrote with others close to you. it might help a little more.
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we actually cry as much at sad endings; as happy 1's------Its an overwhelming emotion-empathy--you cant help it--you feel like your the one in the situation.It overcomes your emotions and you let loose. Passes a hanky
355549
Well, I can sympathize... because I have been "walked over" by many friends.  I'm smart, academically speaking, and have made many friends who feel it is my duty to tutor and provide them the answers and help on all their papers.  Or friends who only call when they need something.  This is why I only have 1 real friend, and my husband.  It took a while to realize that people are shadey, and you can't always trust them.  Hard lesson learned.  Now I evaluate every relationship, asking "Am I getting out of this relationship what I am putting in?" and if I am putting in too much energy... and not recieving any of that energy back, then you really have to evaluate if it's worth it..
588797
well i'm still trying to battle mine...started with antidepressants....but they just made me feel worse...now I just try and focus on the gym, workout as much as possible and talk when I feel sad or emotinal....I might start counseling....but in reality, it won't end until you try to pull yourself out of it....it someitmes takes you to be strong and know that you need to deal and face your issues head on...
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i know EXACTLY what ur going through,im going through it right now.i just feel like im not needed,like it would be better if i were gone,u even hate urself cause u feel ur not good enough.i have felt like this a lot for a while and i still do,i cant help it.i cry for no reason at all,i get mad over the littlest things,and i just feel like even when i try to do something right it gets fucked up or just makes things worse.maybe we can talk sometime.cause i am going through the same exact thing.cause i dont even know what to do myself,maybe it takes just one person to talk to about anything.cause i need it and it seems like u do too.
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have you ever heard the saying, "when enough is enough"? or how about the saying, "your issues feed off the energy that you give to the people causing the problem"....I also experienced the same thing. When i found out that my ex husband was going to marry the woman that he cheated on me with, it nearly drove me crazy. Then one day I woke up and said - I DONT CARE ANYMORE - he was not that important and i refused to give him my energy or waste time thinking about how crazy things had gotten.  On a good note - 3 years after they married, he called to apologize, saying he realized that he made a mistake and I was the best thing that ever happened to his life.  God will get your husband in the end!
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If you are supression strong emotions, do you really want to let them out?  It sounds like your best bet would be to see a therapist. Then you can decide just how much help you really need or want.
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i cried for my aunt recently.\nher husband past away last year and she is going through a very rough time in her life-she is a second mom to me and it causes me great pain to see her hurting.
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I'm an older girl.....34....but am VERY curious about how teens deal with being gay/lesbian. I didn't come out until 2 yrs ago and didn't have to go through all the hard stuff as a kid/teen. How do you handle the dating scene? I can't imagine it. I'd have been scared to death to ask someone out for fear they'd 1) reject me and then 2) cause me no end of hell in school for it. Would love to know your thoughts on this! Send me a message if you'd like to share!     :- )
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you have to try as much as you can to maintain a self emotional balance, imagine yourself as a filter. and try to keep good things inside the filter, and remove impurties ( negative thoughts outside).\nI use a very effective way to deal with emotions. I try to focus and concentrate on something that will help me to become better like reading an article about people who faced so many bas things in their life and yet they became great.\nHelen keller was an examples for me to charge my emotions and go on.\nyou cannot make the world perfect, what could be perfect in your eyes might be imperfect in other people's opinion. always try to accept things and people the way they in order to avoid dissappointment. \nGood luck :)
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When I see my daughter struggling with hurt or sadness and not being able to fix it for her.  When we have to send my boyfriends son home, I worry about him.  When my boyfriend is depressed and I can't cheer him up.  When my mom is sick and I can't mend her.  I don't like to see my loved ones suffer.
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I feel you...when I am depressed...(which is usually every day ending in "y") I definately make myself more depressed by listening to depressing music...or something that makes me want to cry just by the way it sounds. I hate listening to love songs when I am depressed because they just make me want to scream...but yeah I definately get more in the depressed mood by the music I listen to. I think its human nature to want to have someone relate to how you feel and what better way to do it then by listening to music...
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depression alot of people deal with...alot of people deal with stress from other people like family feeling not good enough all different reasons...but u hurting urself dont make u feel better its a way to vent a little but ur still pissed or bummed out in the end...thinking that killing urself will help it wont...u'll have ur family thinking why did u do that..or why was he so stupid or selfish..and if someone or people dont like u then u killing urself makes them feel like they win..why give up on the fight..and let them feel like they win...prove them wrong by getting up and start thinking ok im goin to do this and this and get my life back on track...one step at a time..and if someone trys to say u cant do that or what r u doing..don't let them get u down get an attitude with them and be like look this is what im doin i dont need to explain to u, as long as ur happy screw everyone else...use ur anger into ur power and make urself stronger...seriously..i know ur thinking yeah right u dont know anything im goin through..thats right i dont know what ur goin through..but i know i overcome abuse and sexual abuse and mental and physical abuse my whole life and yeah i wanted to give up and die more than once and the first time i was 3 years old...and im still here im 24 now and happy and dont deal with depression anymore..i dont let myself get bummed out..i fight myself im like no im not letting this drag me down i know its not my fault yeah it hurts and sucks but ill get over it..u just have to think positive..u want to talk to me ill share what i can with u..my yahoo messenger id is the same as my name on here so i.m ill try to help u..but im just letting u know that killing urself is like giving up and life is a blessing and filled with fun and excitement u got to be adventourus and have patience for things to get better and enjoy day to day,it just takes time...
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My abusive ex.  I won't go into details but the physical and mental damage done by this man is something I carry with me all the time.  Because of him I cannot have children and underwent 5 surgeries to fix the physical damage.  The paranoia I deal with on a daily basis because he has not been caught can be crippling at times, to the point I get afraid to go outside or go anywhere alone.  I cannot trust people like I used to nor do I let people close to me anymore, except a very select few.  It's left a feeling in me that seems to say people will suck you in by acting nice then they will turn on you like a rabid dog once you are sucked in and let your guard down.  I know, realistically, that isn't the case but it has left that feeling.  No, I'm not over this yet but I am working on it.  It just takes time to undo the damage done.  But it did take part of me and who I used to be away and I will never be able to get that back.