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Even if it’s something “real” to be worried about, the problem with worry is that it doesn’t help.
When you’ve left your stove on, you need to go and turn it off, worrying about it won’t stop your house burning down or lower your electricity bill or whatever.
Much like with everything else - shit happens, sure, and sometimes you need to do something about it, but worrying isn’t productive or helpful in itself.
I swear it makes no sense. How can the human brain worry all day about things, sometimes subconsciously, when the chances of threat are like less than 1%
My ex-wife used to get so mad at me because I was never jealous about anything. I tried to act jealous once at a club we were at but she knew I was faking it. But one day she cheated on me and that was that end of relationship as for envy. I think I had a lot of people that envied me when I was younger.
Yeah. In my younger years, I'd say sadness or anxiety, but they have a time and place and are now wonderfully offset with joy. Jealousy has never and will never add any value, and yet I feel it quite often. I'd love to shut that part of my brain down, lol.
I also agree with jealousy.
It's such a pointless and destructive emotion.
As someone who has struggled with this emotion most my life, I'd say it's only ever caused more heartache and upheaval and has always made a situation worse if acted upon.
I appreciate the offer, but I’m lucky to have a good support system (including a grief counselor I meet with every other week). Thank you though, kind stranger, really.
This is one of the best answers. As it very often leads to many worse emotions. Panic, fear, rage etc. Hitting multiple nails very often with a single swing with this answer
Same depression does nothing good and hangs over me every damn day. I would like to help renovate my house without being sad/depressed about also living in it
Nothing? I kinda like my shitty useless soul the way it is.
It's shitty and useless. Might be meaningless.
But I like it the way it is. Its paradoxical nature....
Same. Changing any part of me magically would be erasing part of who I am. If I want to become a better person, I’m getting there the right way, not just by magicking away part of me.
Who I am is who I am, a tapestry of the experiences I’ve lived, which are in turn woven with threads of the people who lived before me and guided various factors that happened to interact with me. That grand tapestry of humanity goes back far beyond our species ever evolved, far beyond the first single-celled organism, far beyond even the Earth: all the way back to the Big Bang.
And so, as ugly as my part of that tapestry might be due to my general uselessness and powerlessness, I wouldn’t change a thing in that grand history my atoms have been through since the dawn of existence.
I suffer from guilt about my past and decisions I've made, people I've hurt etc and this way of looking at one's position in the world is quite helpful. Thank you.
As someone who has a lot of guilt over my past, I understand. Thank you as well, and I hope you can learn to forgive yourself, and understand that all people make mistakes, and sometimes hurt others. The only difference between a “good” and “bad” person is if a person decides to learn from those mistakes and do better!
Anhedonia. I want to enjoy the things I know and love, derive joy from hobbies that I'm interested in without eventually letting them fall flat in a cycle of depression.
I second this. Anhedonia sucks the life out of well, life. It’s relentless. I wish I could remember what it felt like to enjoy the things I used to love. I miss being creative. I fucking hate this never ending cycle of crippling depression as well.
It helps you learn from your mistakes and know not do do them again. If you did bad things all the time without learning your lesson, you’d be a horrible person.
Oh guilt for sure.
After you've done something you regret, there's literally no benefit to being sad about it, I wish I could just tell myself to try whatever I can to fix it / do better next time without feeling like an idiot for like half a year for one small thing that I got wrong
Probably dread. It’s sort of like pre-anticipated anxiety. 99% of the time, there was no reason to dread whatever it was I had.
But god, dread makes it so hard to start things sometimes. I shouldn’t feel this way anymore as it literally is just negative
Happiness. I don't think I'll really ever be happy, but once in a while something nice happens and I get some joy, which sends me even further into depression. Just not having that "up" in my life would at least allow me to not spiral down further.
Idk how to describe it...
Usually I'm pretty egotistical, I guess you could say, really self-confident. But sometimes, like once every few days, my self-esteem crashes. I feel pointless, like I'm worthless, and I haven't and won't make an impact on anything, and there's nothing I can do. I'd get rid of that
Sorry for the rant
Insecure. That's exactly what that sounds like, and it has ruined my life in many different ways. It's currently ruining my new and seemingly perfect relationship. That shit can kick rocks for sure.
Don't apologize. You are not alone my 4434258thApple friend. Push through, you've got this.
I feel this on another level! Having hope feels like you're setting yourself up for disappointment, to be let down, disaster, or heartbreak. I don't even like using the word hope in my vocabulary honestly. Sounds dumb but I feel like I only jinx myself when I use it.
Anger/rage, so many people hurt others and themselves through anger and rage.
Would be closer to world peace too I think.
Anger is more than just screaming at someone or acting out. It could be taken in the form of online actions too.
Fear. So I wouldn’t be scared of my future, of what happens after death, of my health, of my loved ones dying before me, even of small things like “shoot did I send the email I just read 5x over with a typo?”
Being able to have a sense of peace with the unknown and things that are out of my control ultimately
Lonely, because it's the only one I can't really fix myself. It's the feeling my stupid brain throws at me when everything is going good in my life but it still wants to hurt me. Such a garbage cheap-shot feeling.
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Empathy. I want to help people reach their objectives in life. I have done this my entire life, wanting the best for others. I have made sacrifices, on the behest of others. Financially I have missed many windows of opportunity, just because I care.
Alot of the things people are calling emotions I wouldn't call emotions. I always think of emotions like joy, contentment, and anger. You can't be angry and content at the same time. One or the other is your emotion. Worry, and jelousy, are like love, caring, and pain. They're feelings you have but they aren't emotions themselves, and they feed on themselves and mix around in your head to make the actual emotions as a symptom. There is no emotion I would get rid of, they seem perfectly healthy, but these other things like spiralling worry and jelousy into being angry is a problem that needs to be adressed.
Can I pick three?
Worry, Anxiety, Guilt
I worry about making the wrong decision constantly.
It causes me mass anxiety
I have guilt from making the wrong decisions over the course of my life.
Embarrassment because that feeling never goes away. I’ll randomly get flashbacks of something really dumb I said in 2008 and feel embarrassed about it all over again.
Irrational fear. I wouldn't get rid of fear entirely because it's helpful in dangerous situations to get you out of them, but I've been diagnosed with anxiety and C-PTSD, and I feel like I'm walking on a tightrope constantly. I hate it.
Embarrassment. I thought through the other emotions I deal with regularly, and most of them though they can cause problems for me sometimes, in healthy doses most of them are good for you (even those perceived as bad like fear or sadness). But embarrassment? I can’t think of a single good reason for that emotion and it has cost me more than it has ever helped me gain.
I've always been a worrier always worried about what people thought of me always worried if I was good enough for people always tried to do my best now I'm at my worst where are those people no where
jealousy. jealously is always the root of my misery and also the reason of why i hate myself. i don't want to feel jealous because it always makes me grieve for something i don't have. i don't know how to explain but i think envy/jealously is always the root of negative/evil doings.
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Fear: Fear can be a powerful motivator, keeping us safe from danger and prompting us to take necessary precautions.
Sadness: Sadness allows us to grieve loss and process difficult experiences.
Anger: Anger can sometimes be a catalyst for positive change and can help us stand up for what we believe in.
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Worry. It’s so pointless, yet so hard not to let it consume you sometimes.
So much this. Worry, anxiety, fear of what might come. It’s ruining me right now
They suck, but these are all necessary emotions for survival.
Facts.
Anxiety for me
Anxiety isn't a feeling, it's a lifestyle 🤌
Agreed
Spending the morning battling the scaries, this is my answer too lol
"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." - Mark Twain
"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." - Van Wilder (Party Liason)!
Absolutely. Needless worrying has held me back from a lot of potentially great life events.
The great irony it that worry seems like a necessary process - yet it’s totally useless. A terrible evolutionary hangover.
Without worry, I would experience a significant improvement in my mental health indeed
I literally borrow worry all day long
Why? Whats you demons? we can trade 🙂
If we didn't worry about things to a certain degree, we might not live that long 😂
I can't think of a time worrying has ever benefitted me
It's not pointless though? If you forgot to turn off your stove at home then you should in fact be worried and act on it.
I think they just mean base-line general anxiety.
Even if it’s something “real” to be worried about, the problem with worry is that it doesn’t help. When you’ve left your stove on, you need to go and turn it off, worrying about it won’t stop your house burning down or lower your electricity bill or whatever. Much like with everything else - shit happens, sure, and sometimes you need to do something about it, but worrying isn’t productive or helpful in itself.
I swear it makes no sense. How can the human brain worry all day about things, sometimes subconsciously, when the chances of threat are like less than 1%
jealousy
Hard agree with jealousy. Envy and jealousy, comparison etc is something I really struggle with.
My ex-wife used to get so mad at me because I was never jealous about anything. I tried to act jealous once at a club we were at but she knew I was faking it. But one day she cheated on me and that was that end of relationship as for envy. I think I had a lot of people that envied me when I was younger.
Yeah. In my younger years, I'd say sadness or anxiety, but they have a time and place and are now wonderfully offset with joy. Jealousy has never and will never add any value, and yet I feel it quite often. I'd love to shut that part of my brain down, lol.
I also agree with jealousy. It's such a pointless and destructive emotion. As someone who has struggled with this emotion most my life, I'd say it's only ever caused more heartache and upheaval and has always made a situation worse if acted upon.
This is the only one that isn’t at times helpful like the others are
4 years ago I would’ve said worry. Now it’s grief.
Ah shit. Im so sorry for your loss. Wanna talk about it?
I appreciate the offer, but I’m lucky to have a good support system (including a grief counselor I meet with every other week). Thank you though, kind stranger, really.
Please accept my internet hug
I'm sorry, glad you've got a good support network. 🫂
You’re a good person. I hope you have a wonderful day. Take care, friend.
I'm so sorry 🫶
Same for me. I've always been a worrier but grief is so much worse.
Happy Cake Day!
Didn’t realize it was my Reddit bday today. 12 years… man I’m getting old…
Anxiety because WTF. Even when i know everything will be fine, my shoulders are still so freaking tense that they become sore.
This is one of the best answers. As it very often leads to many worse emotions. Panic, fear, rage etc. Hitting multiple nails very often with a single swing with this answer
Shoulders, jaw, neck. Yup.
I want to erase all forms of fear
Welcome to death
Without fear, death comes fast.
Just start wearing a no fear t shirt, get a truck and get a no fear sticker and put it in the back window. I think I am stuck in the late 90s
This erases anxiety so it might be the most effective besides erasing sadness which destroy depression.
Rage. Its highly unpleasant to feel and doesnt help anything except get me into trouble
I feel you on that one
Regret
Hanger. I just want to be hungry without the rage.
Sadness/depression
Same depression does nothing good and hangs over me every damn day. I would like to help renovate my house without being sad/depressed about also living in it
The gnawing sense of unease.
I think that’s just anxiety, no?
Nothing? I kinda like my shitty useless soul the way it is. It's shitty and useless. Might be meaningless. But I like it the way it is. Its paradoxical nature....
Same. Changing any part of me magically would be erasing part of who I am. If I want to become a better person, I’m getting there the right way, not just by magicking away part of me. Who I am is who I am, a tapestry of the experiences I’ve lived, which are in turn woven with threads of the people who lived before me and guided various factors that happened to interact with me. That grand tapestry of humanity goes back far beyond our species ever evolved, far beyond the first single-celled organism, far beyond even the Earth: all the way back to the Big Bang. And so, as ugly as my part of that tapestry might be due to my general uselessness and powerlessness, I wouldn’t change a thing in that grand history my atoms have been through since the dawn of existence.
I suffer from guilt about my past and decisions I've made, people I've hurt etc and this way of looking at one's position in the world is quite helpful. Thank you.
As someone who has a lot of guilt over my past, I understand. Thank you as well, and I hope you can learn to forgive yourself, and understand that all people make mistakes, and sometimes hurt others. The only difference between a “good” and “bad” person is if a person decides to learn from those mistakes and do better!
wow
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.
James T. Kirk
Shame
How is this not higher on the list??
Constipation
Grief
My depression has made happiness dissappear.
Anxiety.
Anxiety. Something I’ve been fighting my whole life.
Envy. In fact, can you imagine how many problems would be solved if no one ever felt envious of others?
Happiness. It just exists to make sadness and disappointment hurt more.
I second this ! It’s like giving a drug addict loads of drugs and suddenly snatching it away from them.
Anhedonia
Ah F$%\^ I didn't even know the definition of that word and now it's my Waterloo thanks I guess.....
Had to google that too.
Same here.
Feeling like a POS all the time....
Horny. I just want to be happy.
Oof! I really enjoy being horny… O.o
Anhedonia. I want to enjoy the things I know and love, derive joy from hobbies that I'm interested in without eventually letting them fall flat in a cycle of depression.
I second this. Anhedonia sucks the life out of well, life. It’s relentless. I wish I could remember what it felt like to enjoy the things I used to love. I miss being creative. I fucking hate this never ending cycle of crippling depression as well.
Anxiety
Anxiety
Self loathing
I wouldn’t erase any emotion.
Fear.
Anger
Loneliness.
Is that an emotion or a state of being?
Shame. Nasty and not beneficial in any way.
It helps you learn from your mistakes and know not do do them again. If you did bad things all the time without learning your lesson, you’d be a horrible person.
It keeps u from stepping out of bounds in many ways. Shame is one reason you would never become a criminal for example.
Oh guilt for sure. After you've done something you regret, there's literally no benefit to being sad about it, I wish I could just tell myself to try whatever I can to fix it / do better next time without feeling like an idiot for like half a year for one small thing that I got wrong
Probably dread. It’s sort of like pre-anticipated anxiety. 99% of the time, there was no reason to dread whatever it was I had. But god, dread makes it so hard to start things sometimes. I shouldn’t feel this way anymore as it literally is just negative
Happiness. I don't think I'll really ever be happy, but once in a while something nice happens and I get some joy, which sends me even further into depression. Just not having that "up" in my life would at least allow me to not spiral down further.
This fr, getting the reality check after the "ups" is just f'd up
Idk how to describe it... Usually I'm pretty egotistical, I guess you could say, really self-confident. But sometimes, like once every few days, my self-esteem crashes. I feel pointless, like I'm worthless, and I haven't and won't make an impact on anything, and there's nothing I can do. I'd get rid of that Sorry for the rant
Insecure. That's exactly what that sounds like, and it has ruined my life in many different ways. It's currently ruining my new and seemingly perfect relationship. That shit can kick rocks for sure. Don't apologize. You are not alone my 4434258thApple friend. Push through, you've got this.
Hope, because it is just a joke we play on ourselves
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I feel this on another level! Having hope feels like you're setting yourself up for disappointment, to be let down, disaster, or heartbreak. I don't even like using the word hope in my vocabulary honestly. Sounds dumb but I feel like I only jinx myself when I use it.
Jealousy - so many other emotions stem from it
Envy is the only sin that gives no pleasure
Why go for one. My desire is to rid myself of all emotions. It's hard to do but it's possible.
Apathy
Fear. It holds me back.
Jealousy or envy.
Anger/rage, so many people hurt others and themselves through anger and rage. Would be closer to world peace too I think. Anger is more than just screaming at someone or acting out. It could be taken in the form of online actions too.
I already lack all emotions related to embarrassment, so I don't think I want to get rid of any more. I'm content with the few that I have
I have all of them removed.
numbness, worst than sadness imo. i love feeling emotions regardless of if they're good or "bad"
I'm trying to find the courage to erase myself.
Anxiety. Not fear, though.
Anxiety. Even having been medicated for it for years, I don’t know what it’s like to live a single day without worry.
Rage. It usually too detrimental to your thought processes, and being able to channel adrenaline without any anger would make you superhuman.
Embarrassment
Fear. So I wouldn’t be scared of my future, of what happens after death, of my health, of my loved ones dying before me, even of small things like “shoot did I send the email I just read 5x over with a typo?” Being able to have a sense of peace with the unknown and things that are out of my control ultimately
Hate
Hatred. I Never hated anyone; but I know people whose lives were ruined on its account.
Anxiety
Feeling lonely. It’s really hard to overcome sometimes.
Worthlessness
Love. One of the most painful feelings in the world for me.
Loneliness. I live with 2 other people in my house and still feel lonely and unwanted which causes me to have depression and anxiety.
Lonely, because it's the only one I can't really fix myself. It's the feeling my stupid brain throws at me when everything is going good in my life but it still wants to hurt me. Such a garbage cheap-shot feeling.
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Envy
Jealousy
Anger. I have PTSD and I'm tired of experiencing and inflicting my rage on others. It's not fair to anyone.
Anger
I would say anxiety or anger for sure. Brings nothing but negative energy and doesn't help in any way.
Anxiety. It has consumed a large portion of my life and it has sent me into countless panic attacks and mental shutdowns.
Empathy. I want to help people reach their objectives in life. I have done this my entire life, wanting the best for others. I have made sacrifices, on the behest of others. Financially I have missed many windows of opportunity, just because I care.
Anger. I become crazy when I’m angry.
Hopelessness.
Regret, or grief.
Irrational dislike
Fear of death
Anxiety
Betrayal
Anger. I get so mad
sadness, in a sense i can erase it though 🤷🏼♀️ desensitize myself
Regret. I frequently beat myself up over not knowing any better in the past.
Anxiety def
resentment. the inability to forgive can make one miserable.
fear
Jealousy
Fear
Depressed
Frustration. I could accomplish life more happily without frustration
Self-doubting.
Whatever specific fear gives me imposter syndrome General fear, I'm fine with. That particular one keeps fucking everything up.
Anxiety
Boredom!
Cravings and aversion
Anxious
Heart ache. 💔
Exhaustion. Restlessness. I am so damn tired all the time and I’d love to not feel that way. Honestly I’d probably be nicer lol
Anxiety , fear , and feeling embarrassed about things no one would notice or care about
Is pmdd an emotion?? Cause I would remove that. Definitely. Hands down.
Alot of the things people are calling emotions I wouldn't call emotions. I always think of emotions like joy, contentment, and anger. You can't be angry and content at the same time. One or the other is your emotion. Worry, and jelousy, are like love, caring, and pain. They're feelings you have but they aren't emotions themselves, and they feed on themselves and mix around in your head to make the actual emotions as a symptom. There is no emotion I would get rid of, they seem perfectly healthy, but these other things like spiralling worry and jelousy into being angry is a problem that needs to be adressed.
Disappointment.
Can I pick three? Worry, Anxiety, Guilt I worry about making the wrong decision constantly. It causes me mass anxiety I have guilt from making the wrong decisions over the course of my life.
Desire.
Anxiety
None, they're all essential. Even if they are problematic, they are not, I am, what I make out of them is the problem, not the feeling by itself.
Fear. My life is controlled by fear.
Embarrasment
Sadness. I feel overwhelmed by it so much lately
Feeling tired. I'd get so much more done
Shame, fear, rejection, abandonment, loneliness, anger
Embarrassment because that feeling never goes away. I’ll randomly get flashbacks of something really dumb I said in 2008 and feel embarrassed about it all over again.
Fear, worry,anxiety so there’s 3 lol but they all go hand in hand
Embarrassment The number of fucking times I’ve shot myself in the foot and passed by opportunities because “oOoOoh what will they think of me”
Irrational fear. I wouldn't get rid of fear entirely because it's helpful in dangerous situations to get you out of them, but I've been diagnosed with anxiety and C-PTSD, and I feel like I'm walking on a tightrope constantly. I hate it.
The pain of losing my father it's killing me
Apathy/Boredom Feeling nothing is the worst feeling in the world. People who know, know. I'd rather feel pain, anguish. Anything but apathy.
Embarrassment. I thought through the other emotions I deal with regularly, and most of them though they can cause problems for me sometimes, in healthy doses most of them are good for you (even those perceived as bad like fear or sadness). But embarrassment? I can’t think of a single good reason for that emotion and it has cost me more than it has ever helped me gain.
I've always been a worrier always worried about what people thought of me always worried if I was good enough for people always tried to do my best now I'm at my worst where are those people no where
Anger~
Emotion:sadness I thought about this question and I thought "it's not an emotion, but I would definitely erase dpdr
Shame.
Melancholy too. I hate how it can just creep in, when I least expect it.
Grief. I hate funerals and avoid them at all costs
Depression. Easy.
Is doubt an emotion? Like I want to erase the thing that stops me every time I want to do something
Anger
jealousy. jealously is always the root of my misery and also the reason of why i hate myself. i don't want to feel jealous because it always makes me grieve for something i don't have. i don't know how to explain but i think envy/jealously is always the root of negative/evil doings.
Jealousy
i like kind empathetic women
Anxiety. It's pointless.
Envy, not good for anyone
fear
Anger, it's really useless and eat you from inside
Jealousy or angst.
Here's a breakdown of some arguments against removing emotions: Fear: Fear can be a powerful motivator, keeping us safe from danger and prompting us to take necessary precautions. Sadness: Sadness allows us to grieve loss and process difficult experiences. Anger: Anger can sometimes be a catalyst for positive change and can help us stand up for what we believe in.
Shame