Is it normal for your chest to actually hurt when you are sad? I'd ask people I know...

Is it normal for your chest to actually hurt when you are sad? I'd ask people I know, but I don't want to sound like a nutcase.

I've been something of an emotional cripple for the past 10+ years, I wont get into the hows and whys, but last few days I've started feeling things again, and I keep finding myself home alone, thinking about how lonely and shitty my life is and my chest literally hurts and I get shivers.

Is this normal or do I need to seek help?

Fellow anons are more than welcome to ask their own feels questions, and of course I'd rather people didn't mercilessly ridicule me/this thread but Holla Forumsoys will be boys…

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That's a normal feeling when you are under intense emotions. Feeling like your heart is broken after a breakup is an actual physical thing, for example.

How long does it last?

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Take some Tylenol. No, really.


Believe it or not, a study actually showed that Tylenol helped emotional pain, too.

I felt this too, especially when I feel specifically lonely. It literally feels like my heart is cracked, I wish it were stone.

It took me 3 days for it to start going away, 2 weeks later I no longer feel it.

Tylenol is american for paracetamol? If so I've had some, if not do I need a prescription or would I be able to get it over the counter (and what is it?)


For me it feels weirdly indulgent, like wallowing in sadness and feeling this pain is a guilty - not pleasure, but vice


I've already felt like this pretty much every evening after work for two weeks, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker. Tried alcohol, seemed to take the edge off it, but I can't booze up every night of the week

All jokes aside, at what point are you supposed to bite the bullet and ask a doctor for anti depressants? I read some online stuff that basically said if you're having suicidal thoughts more than once a week you're fucked, is this true?

stone is brittle, I'd rather a supple heart that bounces off walls no matter hard you hit it

You need something to get your mind off it. A job of course is a good start. Anti depressants don't do shit for me, nor would i want to take them anyways.

The only way to get rid of the feeling is to stop thinking about it, just posting in this thread is slightly bringing it back for me.

It is if you want it to be. Don't take anti-depressants, they don't work. The best thing you can do is seek comfort from others. If not that, then find something you love and let it kill you.

I have a 9-5 job already, it's a tiny office though, and I have no non-work interactions with any colleagues

Sorry to drag you down

Lets say I basically have no close people in my life, my best friend lives a long, long way away and we're not really in touch anymore and he is engaged to marry and has generally moved on in life, and my family are a big, big part of the reason I am the way I am, and being around them makes me suicidal

Do I just hire an escort whenever I can afford it? Do I debase myself on online dating sites? Do I throw whatever I have to offer at everyone I meet in the hope they end up liking me?

Are you male or female?

Why don't you try to find the source of your pain? It's not good to run away from problems. They will eventually catch up to you, and when they do you'll crack. If you do want to go the path of "running away", you can seek comfort through Christianity. The root of all pain is also the root of all joys, and that root is expectations.

It's better to be alone than to be in bad company. Don't hire an escort, temporary pleasures are going to drive you further into a pit. If you don't have it in you to throw yourself out there then you can just become a hermit.

Yes, it's completely normal to feel physical pain due to intense negative emotions. Conversely, intense positive emotions have been shown to alleviate physical pain.

Yeah I'm male


I was brought up pretty religious, but it never felt real or true to me. It's not something I can engage with. Works for my brother, not for me, if there is a God there isn't then it doesn't want me to be happy.


So… ride a rollercoaster?

If only you knew the things I knew. Anyway, God loves you dearly. This life is hell, Satan is the prince of this world. You are not meant to be happy here (you can't be happy here), this place is just a test. I was an atheist once upon a time, God simply did not seem real to me. An impossibility, everything has been explained by scientists already, or so I thought.

So you worship and love a God that by your logic knowingly tortures you and all of humanity?

Sounds like a great guy.

the point is to better know Him - worldly "joy" is a distraction.

He treats all His friends this way.

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