I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.
I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.
It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.