To be addicted to emotional pain?

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That you cannot imagine your life without it?

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Based on 52 votes (23 yes)
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  • thegypsysailor
    10 years ago

    What a waste of a life.

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    • azaleahi
      10 years ago

      What makes you feel alive?
      What do you mean by life?

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  • dickwashington
    10 years ago

    whats emotional pain? like being sad? im addicted to opiates.... you want to know pain (physical, mental, or emotinal) give that a try. until then start stop feeling sorry for yourself!

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    • azaleahi
      10 years ago

      Addiction seems painful.
      I do not know much about it to be able to provide a helpful comment here, but I know there is help out there and I hope you can be ok again :)

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      • dickwashington
        10 years ago

        thank you!

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    Sounds like A Histrionic response to the symptoms of Borderline personality disorder.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    No, I don't understand why anyone would be.
    I don't like negative emotions at all.

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    • azaleahi
      10 years ago

      Fulfillment.

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      • [Old Memory]
        10 years ago

        In what way is it fulfilling?

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        • azaleahi
          10 years ago

          When it defines your life, as in, pain is what makes you. Your reaction to pain is what defines your strength. I don't know how to say it, but it feels scarily empty without pain.

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          • [Old Memory]
            10 years ago

            Wouldn't you rather feel good?
            I don't know how emotional pain gives strength, although learning to deal with it well can do that.
            I cannot see how wanting more of it is healthy.
            I do feel motivated by wanting to change things that upset me, but that's because I want to make things better, not worse.

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  • Riddler
    10 years ago

    You are masochistic

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  • scratch_card
    10 years ago

    There is no problem role playing with a partner is a safe and secure environment AS LONG AS IT'S NOT REAL.

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  • AbnormallyAwesome
    10 years ago

    A little more details would help.
    If you just like feeling down and sad sometimes, that's normal. It's just called being a melancholic.

    But if you're talking about real emotional pain like losing loved ones, getting abused, being laughed at, being really lonely, then I don't think it's normal. You can however get used to pretty much anything. No matter how much you hate your situation you're still more afraid of the unknown. If this is what you feel like you should probably go to therapy because life can actually be pretty good.

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    • azaleahi
      10 years ago

      Nothing as bad as losing loved ones (although I do not think I have the standard reaction to death), or abuse - but just things like losing friends or important people from your life (not in the sense of death). But it seems I have a stronger emotional reaction to most things so something as silly as losing friends is painful. Silly, trivial things are painful for me. I like your name. Emotional pain in the sense that you'd like to escape it immediately because it feels like its maddening.

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      • AbnormallyAwesome
        10 years ago

        Nothing is trivial if it makes you feel bad. Things that make children cry seem petty to us but our own problems are just as insignificant to someon who lived a harsher life. Losing a friend is hard. It's okay to be sad for a while. It would be far more alarming if those things didn't affect you. Allow yourself to feel, face and accept what happened and then move on.
        This is very hard to do on your own and I'd recommend some help. Maybe a therapist, a family member, a priest, whatever works best.
        Thank you for liking my name :)
        I wish you all the best and god bless you.

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