Does anyone feel like their emotions get blunted as they get older? For whatever reason I just don’t get as stressed or anxious as much about things as I used to. On the other hand I also don’t get as excited as much either. Overall I’m just much more… sedated?
I don’t know if it is emotions getting blunted or just that having had a much wider range of experiences the extremes needed to trigger strong emotions are much rarer. When you have little experience of food every meal has a high chance of being the best thing you have ever tasted by a strong margin (or the worst!). But eventually you get to the stage where you have tried so many things that the chances of any one thing being the best are slim, and if it is, it is not generally by a wide margin. I imagine that if you could recreate something as dramatically different as your first taste of sugar your emotions would be just as strong.
I believe the tendency to become less adventurous as we age is down to the same thing. The chances of a new recipe being better than the best recipe we have discovered so far gets lower and lower as we go along, until we get to the point that trying new things becomes more likely to be a negative than a positive. But doing this creates even less likelihood of having an experience that triggers strong emotions - which is why some people go to the opposite extreme of chasing adventure and looking for dramatically new experiences.
Same here, my emotions aren’t as extreme as when I was younger. Something I experienced when I was younger that would be very keenly felt is now more of a “meh” for me. However I still get angry the same, I still get cross at everything! I suffered from an anxiety disorder and had PTSD from around 2006 for about years, so everything feels less anxious compared to then lol.
Yeah but I think there’s different reasons for everybody. For me I’ve never really been a stressy person but when I had a child even less stressy because I didn’t want her to pick up on it.
Same as you I don’t get excited much any more (late 40’s here), but I am -definitely- much grumpier now than I used to be. Nothing used to worry me back in the day, but now I’m constantly having to catch myself and shut my mouth before I grumpily complain about so many things.
It’s a trait I don’t like and do my best to suppress, but sometimes it slips through. My internal dialogue is just constant grumpiness these days and I hate it!
Is frustration an emotion? I don’t really get angry or excited that much, but holy shit do I get frustrated at little things (90% of the time it’s people doing stupid little things). The frustration leaves quickly, but it’s pretty intense when it hits.
Does anyone feel like their emotions get blunted as they get older? For whatever reason I just don’t get as stressed or anxious as much about things as I used to. On the other hand I also don’t get as excited as much either. Overall I’m just much more… sedated?
I don’t know if it is emotions getting blunted or just that having had a much wider range of experiences the extremes needed to trigger strong emotions are much rarer. When you have little experience of food every meal has a high chance of being the best thing you have ever tasted by a strong margin (or the worst!). But eventually you get to the stage where you have tried so many things that the chances of any one thing being the best are slim, and if it is, it is not generally by a wide margin. I imagine that if you could recreate something as dramatically different as your first taste of sugar your emotions would be just as strong.
I believe the tendency to become less adventurous as we age is down to the same thing. The chances of a new recipe being better than the best recipe we have discovered so far gets lower and lower as we go along, until we get to the point that trying new things becomes more likely to be a negative than a positive. But doing this creates even less likelihood of having an experience that triggers strong emotions - which is why some people go to the opposite extreme of chasing adventure and looking for dramatically new experiences.
Same here, my emotions aren’t as extreme as when I was younger. Something I experienced when I was younger that would be very keenly felt is now more of a “meh” for me. However I still get angry the same, I still get cross at everything! I suffered from an anxiety disorder and had PTSD from around 2006 for about years, so everything feels less anxious compared to then lol.
Yeah but I think there’s different reasons for everybody. For me I’ve never really been a stressy person but when I had a child even less stressy because I didn’t want her to pick up on it.
I can relate to that… I think having a child really helped me too, for the same reason.
Same as you I don’t get excited much any more (late 40’s here), but I am -definitely- much grumpier now than I used to be. Nothing used to worry me back in the day, but now I’m constantly having to catch myself and shut my mouth before I grumpily complain about so many things.
It’s a trait I don’t like and do my best to suppress, but sometimes it slips through. My internal dialogue is just constant grumpiness these days and I hate it!
Is frustration an emotion? I don’t really get angry or excited that much, but holy shit do I get frustrated at little things (90% of the time it’s people doing stupid little things). The frustration leaves quickly, but it’s pretty intense when it hits.
Overall though, yeah. Way less emotional swings.
No, I am just as intense and wild as ever.
I do try my best to appear calm and i do hold my tongue
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