Shame and guilt seem to be pretty worthless endeavors into unnecessary adherence to social stigma. Really though, most any emotion that lends itself to the exploitation of others is bound to be a "bad" or a "negative" one, because expression shall always pose the risk of exposing the ego's greatest vulnerabilities. Emotion is a primary social interface, secondary only to language at times, so I'd say that validating certain emotions by their utility is not dissimilar to picking and choosing your favourite and least favourite words to use... the flaw in this being that sometimes the right situation calls for a specific word that simply cannot be expressed otherwise without severely detracting from the genuineness of the circumstances.

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Originally posted by Nurdy South Terror is the worst emotion

Actually, yes. I am going to change my vote to that.

I once woke up at age 15 or 16. I don't know what the fuck had been going on while I was dreaming, but I was too scared to get out of bed. I sweated for half an hour with irrational panic and total fear. To this day I still get a chill remembering it.

There is nothing as overwhelming and all-consuming as complete fear or terror, whether it's in anticipation of something as serious as being killed or as trivial as getting bad exam results.

Who knows where you'd be had you not been scared straight though.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Who knows where you'd be had you not been scared straight though.

Pffft, as if he's straight.

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Fear as a primal emotion serves a basic purpose in the human psyche to get people out of some immediate threat to themselves, its pretty bad but you can push through it and overcome.

Anger is a much more complicated emotion that encapsulates a half dozen other tertiary traits and for the most part they're all destructive in some way or another. Either to other people, yourself or the environment around you.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Pffft, as if he's straight.

given his earlier post i think its a bit rough to be teasing him about his late-night-sneaky uncle.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN given his earlier post i think its a bit rough to be teasing him about his late-night-sneaky uncle.

What? No you don't.

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Leave him alone, guys - he obviously didn't even like it all that much.

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Anxiety for me..

If I don't have a rough plan I usually suffer from small bouts of this.

Goes hand in hand with uncertainty for me. Once I know what's going I'm 100% fine. It's the lead up to not knowing what's next that gets me sometimes.

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Originally posted by Domesticated I once woke up at age 15 or 16. I don't know what the fuck had been going on while I was dreaming, but I was too scared to get out of bed. I sweated for half an hour with irrational panic and total fear. To this day I still get a chill remembering it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Chills

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More like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terrors

I'll bet that's exactly what it was.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On More like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terrors

Yeah, but if you had read the book I linked, you'd understand.
In the book the same things happen to people who are drugged to make them susceptible to mind-control through subliminal messaging.

It was a good read, but not as good as his newer stuff IMO.

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