Hi All :) .. What EMOTION has pushed YOU closest to an edge? :D?

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Answer 1

I would have to say helplessness.

Helplessness created or stemmed from other emotions like Anger, sadness, loneliness

Short story: Molested by two different men as a young teen.

Once these emotions began to appear as a young adult they pushed me to being suicidal for one. The other, a need to hear shattering glass. I know, weird. But when I would get angry, I had a need to hear glass breaking, but I never got to the point of actually breaking anything. I later learned in some good counseling that my need to hear the glass breaking was an attmpt to gain some control in my life. I was told that had I actually ever reached the point of breaking the glass, it would have signyfied my life spiraling out of control, and at that moment I probably would have been commited to psych.

Answer 2

Let me once again get to the root of this question... In Psychology emotions are the result of evolutionary adaptation and social construction. According to this theory There are "Basic Emotions" which are defined as being "species-typical psychological responses that evolved to serve various challenges faced by our ancestors". Psychologists have made different categorizations for those Basic Emotions with small variations but the most famous of these are the so called "Big Six", used in Paul Ekman’s research on pancultural recognition of emotional expressions in 1969. They are happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust. The many emotions we know are all either sub-emotions of those six Basic Emotions or a combination of two or more. People's reaction to each one of those Basic Emotions differ So while some will be closer to the edge by anger others might react strongly to Happiness or Sadness (remember those guys dying of heart attacks in football games). But for me I'll have to agree with the majority of Answerers here... I believe that Anger must be one of the most challenging and dangerous Emotion of all.

Answer 3

Loss through death is the hardest for me to deal with. I dealt with it on a daily basis as a social worker. But the difficult emotion to deal with is when friends die very young. I accept death in old age relatively easily, it becomes easier when you are dealing with it every day. It is just the circle of life but when people die young there is no justification, in my view.

There is no cajoling the person to into being alive again, no ringing them and persuading them to come out. No telling them the funniest thing that happened today.They are not experiencing the lives they should have had. There is nothing, no hope, no future in loss through death of the young. It is so unjustifiable.

It is a time marker too. Unlike when somebody has had a long life. So with fortieth birthdays coming up these act as time reminders and I tend to pick the healing scabs.

Closest to the edge. No. But definitely some sadness remains even years later.

Answer 4

Panic - Frightened - Worry
I was washing my car at a car wash in a nearby town, my two young daughters (14 & 7) were standing at the opening watching me. I turned around for less than a minuite when they dissappeared. Just prior to that, I had noticed a brown van at the vaccumm station right outside of the stall where we were. I frantically checked all the stalls and there were no vehicles (van was gone) or my kids. I ran next door to a gas station and asked the attendants if they had seen them. They said no. They were in the process of calling the police when my girls walked out of the restroom. You could have seen my heart beating out of my chest and I started to have a breakdown untill they walked out of the bathroom. Worst feeling I have ever had.

Answer 5

None, but through reasoning I have left many of my old boundaries behind and grown much.

But then I guess that was from an emotional need to become better than I was. But I don't know if there's a particular name for that one.

I believe the balance of rational though and owning your own emotions will open many doors and lead to a much better life.

Answer 6

compulsion....wanting someone or something so much that I would be willing to do something that would not be beneficial for me in the long run...such as eating something tasty that I knew was only going to give me a stomach ache later...or spending too much money on something I know I didn't need...or almost breaking up with my wonderful boyfriend/best friend over someone I was strongly infatuated with but who I know was *not* good for me...that kind of thing. Feeling like you're lacking something is the perfect stimulus for wanting more.

Answer 7

i think it goes back to the saying all is fair in love and war.
for those two emotions are the most extreme and those two are what really drives everyone, every human being. if you love something its just pure love and it drives your desires/needs if its something you hate/dislike strongly/despise it would too be something you might stay away from with a different passion equally as strong. im not sure if i just made sense but i sure hope i did.

Answer 8

Anger. Do I have to explain?
Ok, I got so mad one time that I was ready to just leave everyone and everything and just go join the navy. I wasn't going to tell anybody where I was, I was through with them all. Thankfully I cooled of and I'm still a civilian.

Answer 9

Never got close to any "edge" and this was more than emotion ..

but it was ANXIETY.. the uncontrollable kind that wakes you in the middle of the night with your heart pounding, stomach churning, knees shaking, teeth chattering and mind racing.

finally went to doctor for help and anxiety is gone

Answer 10

Closest to what edge? I've never been suicidal. Certain people have definitely provoked anger in me that has made me want to strangle them or sock them in the face though.