how emotional do you feel you are compared to other people?

[WinnieW]

i got "extremely emotional" on the quiz @reverie posted.

I got following result:

I'm asking myself if this is good or bad.... oh, value judgement detected inside me.

You know how to express your emotions

You recognise that you get anxious when you’ve got a problem and that you can get carried away when you’re happy. You are impatient when there’s something you want and you are capable of getting jealous, sad, happy, worried or falling in love. You can be angry or happy without your emotions taking over too much. You know how to express your feelings and you show your emotional responses while knowing how to hold back when necessary. Even fear can’t knock you off balance – quite the opposite – you know that one of the reasons we feel fear is to signal danger in certain situations. If you’re trembling, if your mouth is dry and your heart is beating fast, it shows that your body is doing its best to find its equilibrium. Apart from showing day-to-day emotions that are the source of enriching exchanges with others – happiness, pleasure, fear etc. – you also like to express the feelings that people bring out in you. The novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz wrote that the art of living might be to take control of emotions that seem out of control. And scientists have already mapped the human genome, which might one day allow us to choose our emotions. If we were able to map the different stages of our emotions, it might confirm what the painter Gustave Moreau once said, that it is best to believe in no other reality than our own. He could be right.

[at sirac son of sirac]

I can relate to this.

I think it's important to deal with the emotion when it comes up, rather than ignore it, such things lead to resentment at a later date, to be not even sure why you're angry about something.

That is, you could think to yourself, i'm angry that the kettle didn't boil, you didn't flick the switch, when really it's something from yesterday and two days before that's been swept under.

[Aylen]

I think it's important to deal with the emotion when it comes up, rather than ignore it, such things lead to resentment at a later date, to be not even sure why you're angry about something.

That is, you could think to yourself, i'm angry that the kettle didn't boil, you didn't flick the switch, when really it's something from yesterday and two days before that's been swept under.

Yeah, I agree. I usually know exactly why I am upset that "the kettle didn't boil". lol I do not hold resentment as it is poison and will kill me or even worse I end up like my mom with rheumatoid arthritis at an early age because of holding resentment (even after expressing anger). I am kind of convinced this caused it by piecing things together. She has started to see this too and has come a long way. She was never good with her own emotions. Not sure if she misunderstood them or she was just naturally inclined to dismiss them.

[blegh]

i couldn't take the quiz, by two or three questions in it assumes a history of romantic relationships that i don't have.


reminds me of my English 101 class where the very first day we were given an essay assignment of writing about our first date, which i hadn't (haven't really even now) had, to be read out loud in the next class. i dropped the class and bought a bag of speed with the refund.

[chrys]

Let me just say that I start out with 100% of my emotions and 100% of everyone elses emotions that get inevitably mixed in, but they end up being at odds with eachother so they end up killing eachother like it's the hunger games so that only 10% is actually living and able to be expressed.

1. Am i feeling it? yes
2. Is person x feeling it? yes
3. Is person y feeling it? yes
4. Is person z feeling it? no
5. Error.

Whether it’s natural self-control or a deliberate decision, you seem detached and don’t often show your emotions. You are alert and self-possessed and you refuse to be blinded by your feelings. However, since expressing our emotions is a way of coping with things, being indifferent is in itself an emotional response. But whatever the reality is, you come across as cold and give the impression that you are withdrawn and isolated from the world around you. You don’t want to seem like a conformist, so you rarely express an opinion, whatever it is, not even if it’s to let people know that you are in a good mood or that you are happy. Because you suppress your emotions you seem blasé. Does that sound familiar? Perhaps you are, in fact, extremely emotional, but unable to show it, keeping your real sensitivity locked away. Or maybe you have tried to remain impervious to everyday emotions to preserve your freedom? You’ve developed a thick skin to protect you from others and you try to be ‘zen’ about things so as not to appear vulnerable. These are the qualities that make you a dominant personality. But living alongside you means to constantly have to decipher how you’re feeling because your moments of joy, happiness, love, resentment, indecision, anger or fear are always tempered by your sang-foid. In 1984, George Orwell portrayed the dangers of a world without emotion. What if you allowed yourself to stop hiding how you felt and allowed your emotions to work in conjunction with the other qualities that you possess?

[darya]

I got extremely emotional on that quiz - it's not exactly that bad, but yeah, probably much more emotional than the average person. It's puzzling how untouched many people are.

[Kiba]

5 -10

However I can be emotional if angry or scared.

 

You are not very emotional

Whether it’s natural self-control or a deliberate decision, you seem detached and don’t often show your emotions. You are alert and self-possessed and you refuse to be blinded by your feelings. However, since expressing our emotions is a way of coping with things, being indifferent is in itself an emotional response. But whatever the reality is, you come across as cold and give the impression that you are withdrawn and isolated from the world around you. You don’t want to seem like a conformist, so you rarely express an opinion, whatever it is, not even if it’s to let people know that you are in a good mood or that you are happy. Because you suppress your emotions you seem blasé. Does that sound familiar? Perhaps you are, in fact, extremely emotional, but unable to show it, keeping your real sensitivity locked away. Or maybe you have tried to remain impervious to everyday emotions to preserve your freedom? You’ve developed a thick skin to protect you from others and you try to be ‘zen’ about things so as not to appear vulnerable. These are the qualities that make you a dominant personality. But living alongside you means to constantly have to decipher how you’re feeling because your moments of joy, happiness, love, resentment, indecision, anger or fear are always tempered by your sang-foid. In 1984, George Orwell portrayed the dangers of a world without emotion. What if you allowed yourself to stop hiding how you felt and allowed your emotions to work in conjunction with the other qualities that you possess?

[Adam Strange]

I have emotions, but I don't let them out of the basement very often. I can hear faint screaming and crying, but it goes away after a while if I ignore it.
When someone else is having a meltdown near me, I tend to make a joke of it if I think they can take it and if that would help them snap out of their misery loop, but otherwise I tend to try to fix things, or if that seems inappropriate, then I try to sympathize.

My results on @reverie's quiz:
You are not very emotional

Whether it’s natural self-control or a deliberate decision, you seem detached and don’t often show your emotions. You are alert and self-possessed and you refuse to be blinded by your feelings. However, since expressing our emotions is a way of coping with things, being indifferent is in itself an emotional response. But whatever the reality is, you come across as cold and give the impression that you are withdrawn and isolated from the world around you. You don’t want to seem like a conformist, so you rarely express an opinion, whatever it is, not even if it’s to let people know that you are in a good mood or that you are happy. Because you suppress your emotions you seem blasé. Does that sound familiar? Perhaps you are, in fact, extremely emotional, but unable to show it, keeping your real sensitivity locked away. Or maybe you have tried to remain impervious to everyday emotions to preserve your freedom? You’ve developed a thick skin to protect you from others and you try to be ‘zen’ about things so as not to appear vulnerable. These are the qualities that make you a dominant personality. But living alongside you means to constantly have to decipher how you’re feeling because your moments of joy, happiness, love, resentment, indecision, anger or fear are always tempered by your sang-foid. In 1984, George Orwell portrayed the dangers of a world without emotion. What if you allowed yourself to stop hiding how you felt and allowed your emotions to work in conjunction with the other qualities that you possess?

[WinnieW]

... I'm not very expressive, but I am sensitive, neurotic, and empathetic. however, I've been told I seem aloof, which is vastly different from how I experience myself internally. I tend to be bashful about expressing or revealing myself around folks I'm not close with .

I was the same kind in my teenage years.

[blegh]

can we get away from this being a quiz result thread, it's kind of annoying me now.

[DirectorAbbie]

I am less emotional than a person with person-like emotions.
I am manly-level emotional. If it's negative emotion, I do it when nobody is looking. If it's positive and not targeted to anyone in particular, I might not remember it happened. If it's subtle, I'm almost guaranteed not to register it. (Subtle emotions are a thing, right?) Though I might be able to find it if I try.
For humans in general, I might be a 4. For females, I might be a 2.
I have more feelings than emotions. And I say that without being sure what I said.

[Sanguine Miasma]

Hmmm...

I don't think that I have them that conscious but right I can tell that I have them. They can really affect me or make me to think perspective where to see things differently. How easily can I adjust them?... not that easy or natural but some.

I don't think there is one number to summarize it.

So if I need to put one number out there it is probably between 3-5 maybe 4?

[maniac]

can we get away from this being a quiz result thread, it's kind of annoying me now.

I think it's funny, quizzes about what should be already common knowledge to the person is really popular on this site lol. Like people need a quiz to tell them what they feel or are.

On topic: I recently had a friend pass away by suicide, he wasn't very close, probably more of an acquaintance. But I went to school with him for three years and saw him everyday, and played music together. What made me so emotional wasn't really the fact that he's gone, I don't think I find death by itself to be sad, but the fact that he felt so awful that he took action to die. That really breaks my heart and in this regard I feel I'm more emotional about it than many, considering I wasn't close to him. This was the first time in my life that a person I knew had died, so that probably contributed to me feeling extra emotional about it, but anyways. After he passed there was a kind of memorial at the school we went to, and I met some people that we went with, and those people I always saw as fake and superficial so it made me annoyed to see them there. I found myself starting to feel protective of him and I knew he wouldn't have liked them, because he wasn't like them at all. He was genuine, not a 'follower' and didn't like attention. I also felt conflicted about it because I was wondering if it was wrong or creepy to be this emotional and protective of someone I didn't know very well, but I related to him. This is an example of how I overreact and overthink things and I assume it makes me more emotional than the average person.

Then there are other areas where I'm not emotional when I "should" be but this question is so broad I have a hard time thinking about it but one of those areas is family. Unlike most I don't feel like I have any responsibility emotionally or any other way to someone only because they're family. That's stupid to me.
I don't have any compassion to someone unless I relate to them or like them which is kind of selfish but that's me. I could tell more about things I don't care about that would make alot of people see me as psychopathic probably lol. What comes to alot of people naturally cause it's "human nature" to care about those things doesn't come to me that way. Actually if people see something as something you just automatically should do or care about without questioning it it makes me despise it even more because people are just following the herd.

[Skepsis]

I have feelings, although I am not sure what they are at any given moment in time, nor do I care to identify them. They just exist. Compared to other people, I seem rather calm and unreactive to things and events that others seem to get easily worked up over. Yet, there are things that irritate me that other people seem to not be bothered by. I suppose it's the big picture items that rouse emotional reactions, while the little everyday things are just something I prefer not to get worked up about. It seems pointless to assign a number to this and would prefer to just say I feel less emotionally reactive than those around me, yet filled with a lot of emotion which prevents me from feeling indifferent. Just human things.

I'm more concerned with truth, the state of existence, the interplay of power and the ideas associated with hierarchies and how they are sustained, and of course knowledge. However, a lot of people do not see that I seek depth in relationships. It is that interplay between existence and the human condition where love and relationships lie. They bring meaning to our existence and make us feel not so alone in the universe.

To live, to contemplate, to face questions of existence, to prepare for death, and the unknowns, things our minds have yet to grasp. The thoughts are neverending, at least until death itself, or is it? Like most humans, I am very touched, troubled, and sorrowed by the death of loved ones. The emergence and disappearance of consciousness in this universe is probably the most fascinating aspect of existence.

[Skepsis]

There is the existence of emotion, which is an inner experience. Then there is that emotion expressed or not, so you can have a range of people from low to high emotional experiences coupled with a low to high range of expression of those emotions. Then there is the range of one's innate ability to control the process, which leads to a large variability within the population being observed.

[Alomoes]

Not very. On a scale of 1-10, like a 3 or 2.

[powerrainbowcrystal]

Much more emotional than other people. To the point where even doing regular day to day tasks is difficult because my body is always in a natural state of emotional process. And all my life people have said I was too sensitive and it made me a target for bullies and assholes growing up but I was also good at inspiring others to do the right thing and defend my inner fag. Obviously as some of you have witnessed, I tend to get into conflicts with sadistic logicals that always want things to be grimdark and not gay.

This at face value makes me sound like some innocent mary sue sort of but its not really like that all, I'm also more pevrerted/more amoral/"evil" than other people in ways too. I can really know how to be mean sometimes/cast buff spells on the wrong person like have some of you witnessed during my darker days. I have my depressive streak despite being a burst of neon gay Fe. It's complex. But I strive to be a good person cuz I do have all those moral fag ethics inside me.

But it's weird because this sensitivity is what other people pointed out to me a lot growing up, not always something I myself felt. And like IEI Teal Swan says we often don't question 'how real the mirror is.' In a way my identity as somebody super emotional is a shell/mask but its a mask I wear quite well. Sometimes I'm cold and stable and unfeeling irl, I often 'contain' my emotions irl because they feel so strong that if they were too released.... it would feel too weird or something if that makes sense. And i always felt my strong emotional vantage points was my greatest weakness but also my greatest strength, people often tell me I have a big heart and how I inspired them or something like that.

[idontgiveaf]

People are way too emotional for me

I can easily portray emotions here but it's all mere exaggerations but irl, I'm always cool i don't show emotions

Oh i don't show feelings that much

But whether the fuck

Compared to people i show less

[Bertrand]

anyone who doesn't do what I want is being too emotional

[maniac]

I can't remember ever feeling apathetic. The only times I've felt numb are short periods and what I assume is because of depression (last up to a day), those periods are actually the worst things that exist. I hate feeling "out of it" and I end up forcing myself to cry so I can feel something. I mean as a little girl I used to come up with sad fantasies to cry, as entertainment when I was bored.
The last year or so (i'm 20) I've started noticing it's a little harder to get myself to cry though, I can be very very down, but it's hard to push out any tears.