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16 Oct 2013, 6:59 am

Beauty_pact wrote:
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You can seperate yourself from your feelings so that most of what you feel is numbness. I did that and it lasted for several years. It makes life meaningless. You do want to be able to love, and hate.


How did you escape the numbness? I am getting there, myself, and it feels liberating, all too often, but... being numb, constantly, would obviously be pretty bad...

Of course, my life already is meaningless.... tonight I discovered that I seem to have more attraction to an anime and manga character than to actual humans.... then again, if someone was very much alike her... maybe I would like her just as much... of course, I do not *love* this character.... thankfully.... >_>; or *yet*, anyway.... who knows what another few years of loneliness might do to me....


It's really hard to describe. I'd got so stuck into the pattern of cancelling out emotions, and I'd analyse everything I thought and tell myself that I shouldn't be feeling this or that. In order to get to that state of numbness in the first place, you have to learn how to cut out certain thoughts as well as emotions. Or rather, if I was upset about something, I would keep changing the subject in my mind.

I kinda know what you mean about it feeling liberating, at first. I was going to make a post here about how it all affected me, then thought it best not to. It fascinates me and was an interesting learning experience, anyway.

About attraction to anime...I never understood it until I saw Howl (Howl's Moving Castle) with blonde hair. It felt odd thinking that a cartoon character was hot. Really odd, like discovering a new colour.



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16 Oct 2013, 7:30 am

^ Sounds like you pattern interrupted yourself to pieces.



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16 Oct 2013, 8:26 am

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Is there a way, like a pill I could take to prevent feelings of falling for someone.


Yes, there is. It's an anti-depressant called Elavil. It's great for shutting you off from your emotions. I've been taking it for seven years now and I haven't been in love since.



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16 Oct 2013, 8:46 am

'Elavil' sounds like it could be the thing.
I'm not offended by anyone's posts btw which are making me smile.....:)



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16 Oct 2013, 8:57 am

Dont kill urself bro. Don't try this at home.


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16 Oct 2013, 8:58 am

Yuzu wrote:
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sorry for the double post

hey, no prob, happens to the best of us. :)


Don't be so nice to him or he'll develop feelings for you.


Was that really necessary...? The original poster obviously is in pain, so it is rather cruel to mock him, as you did.


I'm sorry.
I wasn't entirely being sarcastic though. Auntblabby is a man so it's unlikely that he's gonna fall for him but what if it was a female poster? He may well develop feelings for her, and get his heartbroken again when he finds out she was just being nice.


lol, now you just went and broke my heart :cry:



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16 Oct 2013, 9:30 am

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^ Sounds like you pattern interrupted yourself to pieces.


Sorry?



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16 Oct 2013, 9:39 am

What you were doing with analysing and thoughts and emotions. You'd divert away from them - pattern interrupting.

Why you were so numb - you just didn't reconnect the emotions to anything. You didn't reinstall or rewire the connections.

Now, that's just based on what I think your post said, so I apologise if I am misinterpreting it.



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16 Oct 2013, 9:40 am

andrew720 wrote:
'Elavil' sounds like it could be the thing.
I'm not offended by anyone's posts btw which are making me smile.....:)


Good. :D

Why does a chemical have to be the answer to everything? Maybe there's nothing chemically 'wrong' with you - surely you'd rather turn down the emotion, rather than turn it off completely?



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16 Oct 2013, 10:18 am

octobertiger wrote:
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'Elavil' sounds like it could be the thing.
I'm not offended by anyone's posts btw which are making me smile.....:)


Good. :D

Why does a chemical have to be the answer to everything? Maybe there's nothing chemically 'wrong' with you - surely you'd rather turn down the emotion, rather than turn it off completely?


You know - whilst I was being partly facetious when I posted that advice, I was prescribed it for legitimate reasons i.e. depression (which I don't know whether the OP suffers from or not). It has made me feel less emotionally involved in the three relationships I've had since I started taking it than with the relationships I had earlier in life though - but I only noticed that as a side effect. If I were to meet someone with whom I felt secure in the knowledge that they loved me as much as vice versa it is possible that I might consider reducing the dose.



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16 Oct 2013, 10:43 am

i like toast



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16 Oct 2013, 10:53 am

...I guess toast could work...in large enough quantities...



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16 Oct 2013, 11:13 am

:P OK OK, I get it.


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16 Oct 2013, 11:56 am

Bustduster wrote:
octobertiger wrote:
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'Elavil' sounds like it could be the thing.
I'm not offended by anyone's posts btw which are making me smile.....:)


Good. :D

Why does a chemical have to be the answer to everything? Maybe there's nothing chemically 'wrong' with you - surely you'd rather turn down the emotion, rather than turn it off completely?


You know - whilst I was being partly facetious when I posted that advice, I was prescribed it for legitimate reasons i.e. depression (which I don't know whether the OP suffers from or not). It has made me feel less emotionally involved in the three relationships I've had since I started taking it than with the relationships I had earlier in life though - but I only noticed that as a side effect. If I were to meet someone with whom I felt secure in the knowledge that they loved me as much as vice versa it is possible that I might consider reducing the dose.



I've suffered from depression in the past and have been prescribed 'citalopram' , I'm going to contact my 'psych' to go back on them I think.


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