5 Symptoms You Are Having An Emotional Overdose
Are you suffering from an emotional overdose? How can you tell?
What Is Emotional Overdose?
“I feel vulnerable, I get bored easily, and every once in a while, I feel the need to run away and leave everything behind. I’m not interested anymore, and I’m not interested in a thousandth of a second, so I’m encouraged to finish a project, but the next moment I get bored.”
“I live on a constant roller coaster, laughter and crying accompany me and destabilize me in the most unexpected moments. I must make a great effort to separate my present and past concerns. Insecurity reigns in my life. I often react disproportionately and cannot express my thoughts and emotions clearly, I’m suffocating because I feel a deep need to have someone give me my hand …”
Can you identify someone or yourself saying the words above? This could perfectly well be the speech of a person under the effects of emotional overdose or emotional intoxication. Many of us understand the terrible consequences of alcohol intoxication; it is visible how perceptions change, that the reaction capacity deteriorates, that the heart rate decreases …
But are we able to interpret emotional intoxication, and to deal with toxic emotions?
If you are going through, or have gone through times of high emotional load, an emotional overdose, you are likely to be intoxicated. The causes are diverse since we are emotional beings in our totality, but in any case, the emotional intoxication is the consequence of not taking daily time to cultivate our interior.
Signs of Emotional Overdose
Emotional Overdose Symptom #1 – Your perceptions of your emotional surroundings changed
You will be looking at the world with the emotional lenses, will not care about reasons and will feel like listening to right or others. This attitude can generate nervousness and impatience with unexpected emotional reactions that are out of our control since it is likely that you will not know how to handle what comes next.
Emotional Overdose Symptom #2 – Your insecurities arise
Your insecurities may arise, and they start to control your life. You have become more reactive and often become defensive. Your self-esteem is completely impaired, and you may feel vulnerable in the face of any event.
Your strength weakens, and your toxic emotions are keeping you from seeing clearly the value of who you are and what you are capable of doing. This encourages the development of emotional dependency, to the point of believing that you cannot do anything on your own.
Emotional Overdose Symptom #3 – Emotional blockage prevents progress
Giving a free pass to our emotional reactions without subjecting them to a mental filter limits our ability to communicate appropriately and advance. It is common for us to find ourselves in situations where we do not know how to act as a consequence of our emotional intoxication.
Let’s say that being emotionally intoxicated prevents you from thinking straight before you speak and have a correct perspective on what happens.
“You should always have a cool head, warm heart and give up,” said Confucius. A “hot” reaction causes our emotions to control us, and our impulses explode because we will not be the same if we act at this moment.
Emotional Overdose Symptom #4 – Emotional vertigo prevents from leaving what does not do well to go away
I would define the fear of “letting go” as emotional vertigo; this is nothing more than fear in its purest state, the fear of facing the emptiness generated by a loss. It is the fear of mourning for the loss of our love of sacrifice, and of our weakness for masochism.
You feel irritable if you leave the pre-established roadmap for your life and you think that if you deviate, it will provoke a sacrifice that will completely unbalance your existence. You do not feel empowered to get on with your life if you abandon those habits or people who remain by your side, but you still know that something about them is not going well.
Emotional Overdose Symptom #5 – Mental laziness rules your life and your ability to struggle
It is likely that if you are emotionally intoxicated, feel that you do not listen to what others say and that not only your attention but also your memory, are overly selective.
This worsens if you find yourself at the crossroads of an argument, for you will begin to misunderstand the words you hear and draw your own conclusions, according to your frustrations and problems given your level of toxicity.
It is not that you do not want to do something correctly, but that it is a tremendous mental effort to have different perspectives on any issue and to be aware of everything. It’s not that you do not have the energy you need to face everyday challenges. You may not feel you have the strength to do it.
How to deal with emotional intoxication?
We need to understand that when we are under the influence of our toxic emotions and insecurities, we deteriorate our sense of self, enormously. We tend to misinterpret things, as they seem less accurate, and we are very likely to say or do things that we will feel guilty later.
When we are faced with these problems, what is important is that we are aware that we are full of emotions and that we should allow time for us to analyze and accept them.
If we learn to identify these five symptoms quickly, we will realize our state of ” emotional drunkenness,” allowing us to withdraw in time; this withdrawal will turn out to be incredibly advantageous in keeping our emotional balance.
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