Shaeroden Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 How do you tell the difference between mood swings and the hurly burly of the human emotional experience?and especially if you're the one that you suspect has mood swings?or are mood swings just a symptom of asshole proximity disorder?
dsayers Posted January 11, 2016 Posted January 11, 2016 These are important questions. For me, the basis of self-knowledge is being able to identify what you're feeling and WHY. The more you learn about yourself, the more you CAN learn about yourself. And about other people. By this I mean that some of the more complex experiences you're having might not be able to be sorted out by you right away. Then as you sort out the smaller stuff, what you learn can lend some insight into the more complex stuff. I think "mood swing" is an unfair phrasing. It suggests that a person's experiences are either invalid or unstable. Which even if they were unstable, it would be the result of external trauma. Having new experiences and encounters might change your emotional state in the moment, but if you value self-knowledge and process that, it will give you that much more insight into yourself. Continue this process and before long, other people will not even be able to alter your emotional state. At least not in a way that would cause you to lose control of yourself, and even your emotions. 3
myclippedwings Posted January 11, 2016 Posted January 11, 2016 How do you tell the difference between mood swings and the hurly burly of the human emotional experience? and especially if you're the one that you suspect has mood swings? or are mood swings just a symptom of asshole proximity disorder? Mood swings are just a reaction to a new event in life imo, like all emtoions you are FAR better off understanding them, rather than ignoring them. Trust me.
Shaeroden Posted January 13, 2016 Author Posted January 13, 2016 the reason i ask is that when i read up on "read flags," a lot of the lists say that mood swings are a dangerous sign.
algernon Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 the reason i ask is that when i read up on "read flags," a lot of the lists say that mood swings are a dangerous sign. Could you give an example of what you might consider a mood swing? "Mood swings" might mean different things for different people.
Shaeroden Posted January 14, 2016 Author Posted January 14, 2016 Could you give an example of what you might consider a mood swing? "Mood swings" might mean different things for different people. you know, i'm glad you asked. i looked up the definition, and i noticed that it included the word "abrupt." which indicates to me that an emergent emotion occurs spontaneously, and not dependent on a particular trigger. whereas an emotion is always dependent on some sort of trigger. is this the right way of looking at the difference?
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