Anger can have adverse effects like high blood pressure.
When I get angry, ppl usually laugh and tell me I am cute when angry.

MrsMdiver said:

I know girls, (and so far it seems to be only girls that I know) who
cry when they're angry. I never understood this.
Do you also cry when you're angry?

I don't like being sad.

I really don't. It destroys motivation, it completely transforms me into somebody I'm not in general, and it derails me often for weeks or months at a time.

I much more prefer anger over sadness. I find anger to be a very motivating emotion and one in which I am able to more quickly overcome.

Of course!

It's a quiet emotion that slows you down and puts you in touch with suffering. If you allow compassion for yourself to flow through you during your sad times, you will have a deeper love for yourself and a deeper well of compassion for those you come in contact with.

Or you're just a big weepy fag.

One or the other.

I'm rarely angry, but I cry all the time. I can't help it. The older I get, the more I'm like my mother in that regard. She tears up and the seemingly smallest things, and now, me too.

But crying for me just expresses overwhelming emotion, whatever it may be - sadness, happiness, anger, frustration...

In some ways it can be annoying - I wear a lot of eye make-up and I have to esnure that's not all over my face. And you just can't cry at work. And I don't think I ever have when someone's seen me. But I've teared up at my desk over a stupid chain forward email, tears all streaming down my face.

But like punkmistress said - it's the emotion of suffering. I think we all have to suffer to develop compassion for our fellow man.

And if we're never sad - how would we ever know when we're happy?

CarrieMpls said:

Well said.

Don't forget about hormones.

Of course!

It's a quiet emotion that slows you down and puts you in touch with suffering. If you allow compassion for yourself to flow through you during your sad times, you will have a deeper love for yourself and a deeper well of compassion for those you come in contact with.

Or you're just a big weepy fag.

One or the other.

MrsMdiver said:

Yup - that's a big part of it. It's how I know I'm getting my period, I get all weepy and extra sensitive and depressed the couple of days before.

I see what you ladies are saying. Your posts always make me suffer, but in the end I'll be a better person for it, right?

TheVoid said:

Your face makes me suffer.

MrsMdiver said:

I know girls, (and so far it seems to be only girls that I know) who
cry when they're angry. I never understood this.
Do you also cry when you're angry?

CarrieMpls said:

I hear ya! Mine were more stable when I was pregnant. Since then, they have been all over the place. I guess that is why some ppl say they enjoyed being pregnant.
I can say that my depression was much better when I was pregnant.

MrsMdiver said:

I know girls, (and so far it seems to be only girls that I know) who
cry when they're angry. I never understood this.
Do you also cry when you're angry?

TheVoid said:

I ota cry when I'm very angry. I'm not a girl. I promise

Sadness does suck. Recently me and my ex decided there was no hope for us to ever continue a relationship; and she seemed so calm about it, and I'm here all devastated and shit. It helps I have good friends and I deleted like all the lovey dovey pictures from my facebook, but when my mind goes back to her, I get all lazy and shit, and have to remind myself, there ARE brighter days ahead.

Garden-variety sadness (as opposed to clinical depression) isn't a bad thing. It's part of the normal range of human emotion and helps to give you perspective.

I don't like being sad.

I really don't. It destroys motivation, it completely transforms me into somebody I'm not in general, and it derails me often for weeks or months at a time.

I much more prefer anger over sadness. I find anger to be a very motivating emotion and one in which I am able to more quickly overcome.


But either way, there has to be some reason we've evolved to feel these emotions. They must provide some benefit to our lives, no?


I find that when I read a book with tender moments in it, I'm filled with a certain reverse-sadness . What I mean by this is that I feel joy for the characters in the book, but only because I've experienced sadness as a result of the opposite conditions or outcomes the characters have gone through. Sure, I'd probably feel happy for them anyway--but the emotions are deeper, more gratifying, and intrinsic when it relates to something I myself went through but with bad results. Does this even make sense to yall crazy motherfuckers and hos?




Anyways, I would love to hear your take on it. Even those of you who hate me and whose hatred I absorb with amusement and a healthy dose of self-agrandizing smugness.



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[Edited 2/28/10 3:29am]

TheVoid said:

for some reason that makes me want to be your friend

I knew I shouldnt of come to GD