Delayed Emotional Reaction

[miss.myra]

Can anyone else relate to this?

It's like something that should make me angry or sad happens and it can take days, weeks, months before I actually emotionally react to these things..

it's like someone dies and it's sad enough at the time, but it's not until like months later that I'll be somewhere like at work and I'll just burst into tears and get really sad about it.

I suppose it's never too late to be sad about something, but sometimes it's just inconvenient.

[MrDFrost]

aye, I can relate all too well....Its ok *hugs*

[soma]

witness! (raises hand) it happens to me myra I'm happiest when i am sper busy and negitive feelings thoughs or new will immidiately go on my back burner rather than the moment. not the healthiest habbit i have but i think i havea grip on it.

:) hang in there hun

[ulala]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

it's like someone dies and it's sad enough at the time, but it's not until like months later that I'll be somewhere like at work and I'll just burst into tears and get really sad about it.

My mom was telling about that when my dad died.. she called it "delayed shock" or sumthing, apparently its not very healthy to get that either.

[rawb]

yeah i have a caretaker complex, and a lot of things don't get to me until i know everyone else is okay.

[Rytalin]

I get those all the time.
Whenever anything emotioanlly intense hits me, my heart just kind of locks itself down. No emotions in, no emotions out. That way I can still be functional. eventually the lockdown wears off and I break down, a couple weeks later though.

[Veni*C]

yup.. happens to me all the time....

actually happened to me yesteday...... ugh.

[mugsy]

i was there all last year denying the emotions i should have been having, then more events took place, and its harder for my mind to shut off emotion. i dont neccessarily find it better to not have a delayed reaction. at least before i could say its in the past, and not worry because its nothing i can change. but i have to admit that when it all hit, it hit hard, and has continued to do so.

[sarahnmittens]

it's been happening to my mom a lot lately.
i cuddle her lots and then she feels better.

meow.

[Kandyapple]

Around death I find I really just shut it out. I turn it off like it isn't happening. Ill cry from the shock at first but I don't really feel it. Just a couple tears to release the tension.
I remember when my grandpa died I was the one that had to tell my mom. She was shaking and crying. I just gave her a hug and the phone to talk to my aunt and left the house.
I felt so heartless, I just don't really know how to react sometimes. I just didn't think I was the best person to comfort her at that time.
I find it will click months later, when I have a good memory of the person and it hits me that there will never be anymore. Then I find a quiet place to myself to weep.

[Prissypants]

Better that than feeling nothing at all...