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Does mental health issues go here too? Well, I'll try.

I notice all the trolling I've experienced through my years on 4chan has taken its toll on me. It has made me lose one very important human emotion: Anger. It's very practical, as it makes many types of trolling impossible, but it also feels unhealthy. Can you live a normal healthy life without being able to feel angry? And if not, are there are solutions to this problem that won't involve paying for a professional?

Pic related.
>> Miss/fit/ !CX5ZjxjyRA
My boyfriend does not have the emotion of anger. Sometimes I'm afraid he's going to spontaneously combust.
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
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After nerdraging enough times, you become a more mellow person. This fades if you don't keep up with your 'tolerance'.
>> Anonymous
I have no anger for I have reached enlightenment
>> Anonymous
Oh come on, OP that's not so bad. I've lost nearly every shred of compassion I once had thanks to /b/. I once thought that lacking that emotion would make life much easier but now I get far too easily annoyed with people.
>> Anonymous
>>26139
I've lost a lot of compassion too, but when I managed to shed a tear over a character from a h-game, I was convinced I shouldn't worry too much about it. The minor lack of compassion and the lack of rage doesn't really cause or prevent problems in my life, except that I generally feel a bit too unemotional.
>> Anonymous
I do feel that the desensitization due to lurking the darkest depths of the internets might be a problem sometimes though.
>> Anonymous
>>26147
What kinda problems are we talking about?
>> Anonymous
Dunno, just feels weird when you don't care that 6 more college kids were shot or see a gruesome photo and think nothing of it.
>> Anonymous
>>26151
Well, I personally believe that anyone who claims to feel anything because of that just does it because they think it'd be wrong not to. You must usually know the person to actually feel anything. And sympathy doesn't really apply to murder, dying isn't really painful, so there's nothing to sympathize with. I'd have a much easier time sympathizing with a torture-victim or a patient who knows they're gonna die.
>> Anonymous
even that, nothing. I'd help them if they were innocent, but only for that reason. Maybe it's a personal prob
>> Anonymous
>>26161
Well, you could try playing the h-game Kana, Little Sister. It was what made me realize I could feel sympathy.
>> Anonymous
>>26163
Crap game is crap. Watch 1 litre of tears.
>> Anonymous
>>26104

So you're saying nothing can make you angry? What about people with no traffic savvy? Crappy television shows? Do you never get angry at your computer?
>> BigCock !3uIQO01mdA
I almost never get angry.

I've been trolling for years, fucking around and such, and even before that I had great control of my emotions anyway.

I just straight up don't get pissed off unless I allow myself to fly off the handle anymore.

I like it, I think of it as a strength, not a weakness. You should too.
>> BigCock !3uIQO01mdA
>>26151

Gruesome photos still fuck with my head.
>> Anonymous
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"Can you live a normal healthy life without being able to feel angry?"

Seems to be working out pretty well for this guy.
>> Saigaguy !n87gAqL9/w
I haven't really felt angry in years.

I think maybe I've been angry for a few seconds in the last 6 years, actually.

I'm pretty happy.
>> Anonymous
>>26376

Wouldn't be so sure he's never angry.
>> Anonymous
Heh.
I browse *chans since 2004, and the opposite happened to me. I get fucking outraged all the time. I lost my tolerance. I'm trying to stop because it makes me feel terrible.
>> Guil
>>26392
Seriously, if anything I get easily enraged over things I shouldn't.
Especially when it relates to someone being stupid in one way or another. Oh well, not too often it happens. Trying to learn to laugh it off instead and feel sorry for them.

But sometimes I yell at my dogs ;_; then feel bad later and say I wont do it anymore, but I end up doing it because they are so fucking needy.
>> Anonymous
>>26369
It's not so much a complete immunity as a desensitization. I'm sure there are situations that could make me angry, but I haven't encountered one of these in ages. If my computer acts up, I feel actually more let down than angry, more of a "why are you doing this to me? I thought we were friends ;_;" feeling.
>> Anonymous !3GqYIJ3Obs
I only get pissed at games but I'm never really angry either o_o
>> Anonymous
Total opposite happened to me. Everything makes me angry. EVERYTHING. I think everything everyone ever says to me a direct attack. Deep down I know no one means any harm, but EVERYTHING ANYONE EVER SAYS makes me RAGE. I'm so miserable.
>> Anonymous
For me at least, I usually replace my anger with apathy; which based on how my life is, I would certainly not consider healthy.

Wrath is one of the 7 motivations of humanity.
>> Anonymous
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I don't feel anger for anything unless I see something that surpasses something I've seen before.
>> same person
I don't think I have much problem with it, but I can see how it could be a problem for a lot of people. I'm a very emotional naturally, and 4chan and the internet in general have been quite a rollercoaster for me. Recently, I'm generally on the side of emotionless, but I don't feel it's right. I don't like it, but I can go either way at will, so I don't see much problem with it. It may also have something to do with a fear of showing emotions, due to the culture (irl and on the internets) being so anti-emotion.

Getting irritated with people or animals wanting attention is an interesting side effect. I've got to the point I just "don't have time" for others nearly as as much as before, even through some amount of loneliness. Seems to me if you went too far in that direction, it would be a very lonely life. Especially since in my experience less emotional people tend to be less patient with others and get irritated and abrasive with them more easily.

Imo, it's quite a phenomenon and one little thread on 4chan isn't nearly enough to do it justice.
>> same person
I was watching avatar (what) and heard a quote, "I used to think I was trying to be strong, but I realized I was just running away from my emotions." I've felt that way a lot. Recently I've been more confident in having and showing emotion (to a reasonable extent, it's still nice to avoid looking like a complete idiot), but I understand that people will likely never be supportive or accepting of it. I'll appear soft, vulnerable and maybe weak, but if you think of it, every living being is. I can deal with it (and peoples' reactions to it) in my own way. Cats are soft and vulnerable, but have survived so far as well as dogs, but by rather different methods.

As for being desensitized while normally being a very sensitive person, it's been quite an odd experience and I wish I could explain it all out.
>> same person
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>>26159
Although there may be people like that, I really can and do feel for people I don't even know (I never understood what purpose it would serve to fake that something feels bad). It takes a conscious effort to refrain from or avoid such feelings. Thanks to 4chan/etc I have developed that very well, but my mind is constantly racing to work like a firewall over everything I see/hear/think about and filter things out.

Generally through the day I appear emotionless as nearly all emotion is filtered out. On some level I can decide whether or not to filter it out, and sometimes when I'm alone and feeling lonely or afraid it's like I'm playing some kind of side-scrolling shooter game trying to dodge the multitude of ideas running around and not let the bad ones land (on a lower level than normal thoughts, I strongly hesitate to say subconsciously as I don't know psychology). As my mind wanders, I'm constantly changing the direction of my thoughts and blocking/filtering things out to avoid coming to any unpleasant/negative conclusions ("it's hopeless" etc) or getting too emotional.

Although I can choose not to filter things, it has been increasingly becoming habit, and it's getting rather difficult not to do it. It's a real fear of mine that someday I would lose the ability and a part of me would be lost forever. I used to have to fight hard to not move with certain kinds of music, but now I'm unable to feel it to the same extent (even when trying to). Sure I can move deliberately and try to time it to music, but that's not nearly the same.

in before tl;tr
>> same person
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>> Schwang.
I've never really felt much emotion. ever. i never really thought much of it until i actually tried to make friends and found out that like...laughing happens naturally. lol. i dont get angry, i dont laugh, i dont even find things interesting and this has been going on for as long as i can remember.

>>27548
This right here is how i was on riddilin/adderal/concerta it destroyed every scrap of imagination i had. it also made me lock myself away...inside my own brain. It felt like i was strapped down in a flawless white room and i did nothing but stare...hmm...
>> Schwang.
>>27521
Hmm...this loss...it feels like a hunger as though it were food...but all over. Somewhat like a numbness like the after effects...like when the feeling is coming back to your lips after getting Novocaine in your mouth...
>> Anonymous
>>26369
I don't get angry, but not from lurking. The lurking comes in when I see dismembered bodies or even worse things (torture etc.) and am both emotionally and gastrointestinally unaffected. I see this as a strength.

The only part that bothers me and the reason I don't get angry is because I am in extacy all the time. I am always happy. I lack the ability to show others great joy though. Say I get a great gift. All I can muster is a halfhearted smile and a "thanks, heh." Enlightenment sux sometimes.
>> Anonymous
In grade 7 my teacher was talking about someone being on both sides of the road after being hit by a car.

This is hilarious obviously, so I laughed. Then everyone else looked at me until someone made an excuse that their brother laughs when they are nervous/uncomfortable. It wasn't true but I went with it to dissolve the situation. She was the bitch talking about severed corpses, why am I the sick one?