My emotions are too big for my body

[cupfish]

Why can't my emotions be sized to my something I can try to handle? Why are my emotions overwhelmingly huge? I shouldn't feel this much pain and sadness and loss and suffering, it's too much for one soul. I am so tired of the pain. Every day of my life has been like this. Im 56 years old. I am only one woman but it feel like an army inside of me. How do I cull goodness from this?

 

[piratelady]

I felt like this yesterday as well. I wish I had an answer for either of us, but I don’t. They say if you acknowledge and feel all those feelings, they will pass. Sometimes it’s hard to trust that though.

I will say, the pain, sadness, suffering - it won’t last forever. You will have moments of joy and happiness. When I finally had a few moments of that I tried to really remember what it felt like. Then when it seemed like the sadness would overwhelm me, I could remember what joy feels like and it gave me a sort of light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[The Albatross]

It is indicative of what you give preference to. How you cull goodness is post traumatic growth.

 

[ChildofGod]

For me, it feels like, we have to feel the pain but don't let it consume us, which was almost impossible for me. I started to face my fears. When I face them, the power it once held over me is gone. My attitude now is to find out exactly to me, what I can handle.

I gathered up the courage to go many of the places I lived, and calling up different people that I used to know, asking them questions, seeing how they are doing.

I hope you feel better and or safer soon.