36 Sensations That Must Be Experienced To Be Fully Understood

I think the loss of that pure, unconditional love just takes a little piece of us when they go. It's incredibly painful to lose a love like that.

A big part of feeling such deep grief at losing a pet is that they are often a bigger part of your life than a human. You are their world and that bond is usually stronger than any other you will ever experience. Even your kids grow up and move out on their own. Your pet never will. I am not ashamed to say I felt more pain at the loss of my dog than at the loss of my parents. Although in fairness I still miss my mother after 30 years. My father not 30 minutes after he passed.

I lost peep my duck and daughter in February and I’m still crying over it. I miss my ducky

I think it is because pets are so innocent and pure. If they don't like you, they let you know. If you treat them bad, they do the same with you. If you see them as a beloved family member, they will trust and love you in return. Simple as that.

Family lost our beloved pet dog that we'd had since he was a puppy. Family will still describe it as "You'd think we lost Sister's Name."

I like to describe it as mental paralysis. You want to do things, but you just can't.

Hm. I had depression and I wanted to die very much. But yeah, I get it.

I have recurrent depression so, am medicated for life. Someone professionally (in pharmacy) but indirectly encouraged people to come off of them. While I agree that they're over prescribed, this person had no insight in to the utter sheer nothingness of being depressed. He had never experienced it and another colleague who also takes meds came close to having a toe-to-toe fight with him about it. I would liken it to solitary confinement in prison. I will pop pills happily with joy in my heart to never go there again and even with them some days can still be vile. Especially in winter.

It is kind of like feeling empty sometimes. No happiness, no sadness, just nothing. Big black hole in your heart and guts. At least for me. Family member died? Felt nothing. Bought something for me or got a gift? Nothing. Life is just empty.

It's such an empty feeling. Getting the right meds has changed my life! (Chlorpromazine & venlafaxine BTW, highly recommend!)

Women don't all understand each other's cramps either. Cramps vary from a little pinch all the way to being worse than a lot of childbirths, heart attacks, kidney stones, etc. Sometimes people tend to think someone else is exaggerating because their own experience wasn't as bad, but these things vary.

I had to miss school 2-3 days every month because the pain was so bad I literally could do nothing but lie on the floor in a fetal position.

Being sat on the floor in the toilets at work crying and having my boss pestering me to get back to my desk because I'm not jo an authorised break. Being told I'm getting written up for being away from my desk because it's not fare I'm taking a break whilst my coworkers aren't. Then actually being given an official warning for skiving off, when in reality my endometriosis and twisted ovaries are making me feel like I'm being sliced up from the inside out.

I have a specific bank account that i put a bit of money in through the year and when it's that time of the month for my gf i use that money to buy whatever she needs and i take as much care as i can of her. It sucks and i see you ladies, I'm so sorry.

Non-uterus having person here, but my partner's experience with having a Morena IUD for most of the past decade+ makes me think that it's the sort of thing that anyone who experiences even moderately painful menstrual cramping or moderate levels of bleeding should at least look into or discuss with their doctor. The main "side effect" is greatly reduced menstruation, and the other side effects from oral birth control are greatly reduced or non-existent. Everybody is different, I'm not trying to "fix" anyone and I certainly don't want to invalidate the very real experiences of people, but if you really do suffer every month for several days, it's worth having a frank discussion with a doctor (if you think your pcp will be dismissive, or don't feel like you can afford it, this is a thing Planned Parenthood can help with) about whether you could be feeling a lot better on a fairly safe and, except initially, usually quite easy medicine that should last about a decade at a time.

It can be the simplest thing, like briefly clicking on a separate tab to respond to a confirmation email. I'll have literally not a single reason not to do it- I'm not busy, I have nothing to do, I already know what I need to respond to it with, it will take less than thirty seconds, and all I need to do is move my finger around slightly... Instead I just sit there, space-out at the screen for about a minute, and then close my laptop and likely either take a random nap or go search the kitchen even though I know I won't eat anything. :')

You may look like you're doing nothing, but inside you're going over all of the things you need and want to do, screaming at yourself to just MOVE. By the end of the day you've thought so intensely about all you haven't done that it feels like you've done a full day's work. It's exhausting.

Anyone else experience this when it comes to general life stuff like making appointments or filling out forms? I’ve been in situations my whole adult life where I can’t phone the doctor or dentist until it’s an emergency and then I have to suffer and worry until my appointment. If anyone is wondering how crippling ADHD can actually be, just remember that both of my sisters have had breast cancer and I haven’t had a mammogram in several years because I can’t force myself to make appointments. I know I need to, and I want to, I just… can’t.

I have a friend with ADHD and we work together on stuff, I’ve learnt a lot, I’ve watched it have such an all encompassing effect on how they function and how simple stuff can throw a massive spanner into their thought processes. I’ve helped a bit and have got a few ways of bringing calm but every day is different and every situation is a new challenge. They are now on a microdosing course and that’s helping a bit but it’s also bringing up new problems as they are now having to learn a whole new way of living with it.

The struggle is SO real!

People complain because you won't do anything to help yourself. But the depression makes you not want to do anything!

The loss of motivation is crippling.

I was diagnosed with this last year. I just didn't understand why I couldn't do the simplest task. I mean, my meds were right there and I couldn't get myself to take them. Taxes. Cleaning my space. It's was enraging

Indifference is one way of putting it. Not caring at all is another....and so is lack of empathy. Been dealing with it for a very long time. Some have accepted it about me, others can't. Parents have a very hard time coming to terms with it about me. I'm 46 and they're 20 years older than me. Let's just say we've had a lot of uncomfortable discussions about my "emotions"

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Worst thing to tell someone with depressing is that there's so much to live for. That's not the point. We know.