Have you ever wished that you could just "turn off" your feelings

Just like the same feeling I have felt many times. Those days I felt like doing nothing and not even a single thing can inspire me. I can't even understand everything I am reading or seeing. These are the times I feel like taking a break. Wishing that I was a child again, free from worries and pain. And all that I can think about is eating, sleeping and playing.

So you wish you could turn on and off your feelings? I wish that too, if only we can put a switch on our feelings. But we know it is not possible because we are not robots. Although robots have no feelings. Maybe, wishing like this is just the result of being overwhelmed with problems in life. It's still normal to feel like this to the point of wishing if only feelings could be turned off when they become so dismal...

Actually I did. I was able to turn off my feelings for many years. until someone turn it on again... :p

I think that there have been some times where it has been rather overwhelming about a lot of things. There have been times where my feelings are about ready to get the better of me to say the very least. Troubles are really going to continue to stir, that they are going to be troubled to say the very least and obviously my emotions really do feel rather scrambled. There are days like this where I just want to scream. If only we can turn our emotions on and off at will. As there are times where emotions really are going to really just mess us up, mess us over, and really just cause us great drama and just more than a little bit of trauma. At least that is how the things are going to be. There have been times but thankfully not often. At least not as often as it should in fact be.

Yes, of course I wish I could turn off my feelings, because my feelings are very close to my skin, so to speak. I cry at the drop of a hat. I didn't used to be that way, but since I have gotten older, that is the way I have become. I have major depression disorder, so I do cry when I'm happy or sad or mad. I wish I could just shut off my feelings all together sometimes... but then I have other problems... I have no affect, meaning that I have no facial expressions when my feelings are totally blocked. Everyone has micro-expressions, and with certain medications, I don't seem to have any.

Hi! I actually feel that today. Sometimes I want to give up because of the things that I always feel. I don't dwell on it but sometimes it just come out. I hate it when it happens because I can't easily stop the things that I feel. That is why I always pray and lift up everything to Him. Thanks!

Yes! Like turning off feelings of love for someone who doesn't love you back. Seems like that one is a nagging one that just won't go away...and then there are the other emotions too..I do wish at time I could just turn off my feelings!

Why do we stop feelings with no reason, my friend. Love and affection must not be stop because we are stop to love someone no one care for us. Love must be always and don't stop to love and be love

We are just humans , that's why we feel all those kinds of feelings, my friend. Without them, we will not discover how to cope up when bothered by them. Those feelings help us grow and understand what it is to live on earth. It's up to us how to switch them off or how to cope with them. But as always, we should ask for the Lord's help when we feel those negative feelings, for us to be guided on how to better deal with them.

yes and no, sometimes emotions are just too overwhelming and hard to deal with but on the other hand i would not really want to have none. i'm not trying to preach here, but i did find, in the end, that the best way for me personally to handle bad emotions was to talk to god, and just trust him, and when something went wrong assume that after the bad thing something good would come out of it. which actually works reasonably well. its funny, i like to play the guitar and sing folk songs, but i have to be very emotionally calm to do it, so if something upsets me, i just can't play, sometimes for a few days. but then, after i have gone through the process of dealing with those problematic emotions i actually play and sing better, even though i have missed out practising for a few days, don't tell anyone! and i do often feel that having gone through the turmoil of bad emotions i do come out feeling stronger. some people also suggest mindfulness meditation, i read somewhere that this was good for our prefrontal cortex, in our brains, and it can make us more centred within ourselves and more resilient. i don't know much about it, but it might be helpful. the other thing you could look at is if you have a lot of negative and critical people in your life, as this can often be a reason why people feel bad, and you may then want to look at how you deal with that. and of course another good solution is to talk the problems over with a reliable and supportive person, but they aren't always easy to find. that's the best advice i can offer for dealing with unwanted emotions, but i would, despite the problems they cause, rather have them than not.

This often happens with me. My heart and my mind becomes clouded with lots of things and i just wish that someone came and brainwashed me. Sometimes it feels like all things should vanish from my brain. But it is only temporary. When you go through hard times, the good times aren't far away. These situations call for think by calm mind.

Well, yes i can,sometimes i can't turn off the feeling of being angry,sad but later will gone out if i am thinking positively..... Its human nature to feel it but life is have that so we do try to escape but sometimes can't.........

Sometimes I do wish there were an "on/off button" for my feelings & emotions... When I get overwhelmed with feelings, I like to write poetry or paint. It is a huge release & makes me feel a lot better afterwards. That's the great thing about writing, art, etc. It's not just the finished product. It's a process unto itself & so I take my time when I do these things. Sometimes the finished product is terrible. And yet, I feel better because I have released that excess energy & emotion.

hmmmm. well I do not need to wish for it, cuz I know all of these stress, frustration, annoying moments, pessimistic , etc. will lead me to a main purpose, somehow these things can make me grow stronger and make you better as a person . And besides kuya, God has plans for you, maybe he's just setting you up to these feelings, so that at the end, you can face bigger challenges . :) Somehow that's a test for you also, so stay strong and don't stop praying . stay positive bro and God Bless you ! :)

I have, a couple of times.. or maybe way too many times that i could not even count them anymore. We people go through different things - but just the same we are hurt.. either by an outcome of something we did or by what someone did. whether they have intentionally done that or not, just the same the end result was that we were hurt and is in pain. Sometimes I wish and pray to God that he would just let me forget about this person who caused me so much pain.. but maybe that would be more painful not to know him... Maybe we all just have to go through such feelings and get over them...

Yeah, a lot of times, i have wished to turn off my feelings. that was before and i am or was not able to even control how i would react to certain things, when put under pressure. I guess it would have been really easy if we all could do this, right? hay sometimes its really hard getting our emotions to just not betray us.. often time, it does betray us, not cooperating with us when we need it too...

Often! Sometimes I think life would be a lot easier if I could turn off my feelings and not care about things - especially when it is obvious other people don't care or only care about themselves.