Emotional Poisoning – 5 Symptoms

I feel vulnerable, I get angry easily and from time to time I feel the need to just run away and leave everything where it is. Interest turns into indifference within a millisecond , the desire to finish something is interrupted by extreme boredom.

I feel like I’m in a ceaseless roller coaster ride, laughing and crying accompany and destabilize me in the most unexpected moments. It takes a lot of strength to separate myself from my present and past worries and uncertainty determines my life.

I often react inappropriately and fail to express my thoughts and feelings clearly, which causes me a lot of problems. In addition, I sometimes feel without any desire for something or someone, while then in turn I feel a deep need to have someone who leads me by his hand …

Do you identify yourself or someone around you with this description? This could undoubtedly be the wording of a person suffering from the effects of emotional intoxication. Many of us know the consequences of alcohol poisoning, that perception changes, that the ability to react decreases and that the heartbeat slows down …

However, are we able to correctly assess emotional poisoning?

If you are going through, or have had, moments of great emotional distress, it is very likely that you are poisoned. The causes are different because we are emotional beings. If, however, a daily moment of inner contemplation is missing in our everyday life, an emotional poisoning undoubtedly follows.

1. Your perception changes

You look at the world with your emotional glasses, you are not open to rational arguments and you neither listen to yourself nor to others. In the end, all of this seems like a waste of time to you, although nothing is further from reality.

This can create nervousness and impatience for unexpected emotional reactions that are beyond our control as we already no longer know how to deal with what is occurring with regularity.

2. Your insecurities are growing

Your insecurities grow and determine your life. You tend more and more to just react and take a defensive stance. Your self-esteem is badly weakened and you feel vulnerable no matter what.

Your strength dwindles and your feelings prevent you from clearly seeing what you are worth and what you can achieve. This, in turn, reinforces your emotional dependence to the point where you sometimes think you can’t do anything on your own.

3. Your emotional blockage prevents you from moving forward

When we let our emotional responses flow without applying a mental filter, we limit our ability to communicate and make progress. We often find ourselves in situations to which we do not know how to react because of our emotional poisoning.

Emotional intoxication can be said to prevent you from thinking and taking a perspective on what is going on around you before speaking.

You should always have a cool head, a warm heart and a long hand,   says Confucius. A heated reaction causes us to be controlled by our emotions, our frustration, our anger and our impulses break through, so that in that moment we act without being ourselves.

4. Emotional dizziness prevents you from letting go of what is not good for you

I would describe the fear of letting go as an emotional dizziness; it is nothing but the fear in its purest state, the fear of encountering the emptiness that the loss generates. It is the fear of grief over the loss of our love for self-surrender and our weakness for masochism.

You feel irritated when you step off the script of what you created for your life and feel that when you get astray you are conjuring up ruin, which completely messes up your whole life. You will not feel able to get on with your life if you leave these habits and people who stay by your side even though you know that something is wrong with them.

5. Mental indolence determines your life and your ability to put up with efforts

If you are poisoned, it is likely that you feel you have not heard what others are telling you and that not only your attention but also your memory is highly selective.

This gets worse when you find yourself in the center of a discussion as you begin to twist the words heard and draw your own conclusions that are tailored to your frustrations and problems.

It’s not like you don’t want to do better, but it takes a lot of mental effort for you to take different perspectives on different questions and take in all of the information. And no, you don’t have the energy to take on these daily challenges, you don’t have the strength to do it.

How to deal with emotional poisoning

We need to understand that we harm ourselves when we are influenced by our feelings and insecurities. We don’t interpret things accurately and we are very inclined to say or do things that we may regret afterwards.

In the face of these problems, it is important that we are aware that our feelings make us like drunk and that we need to give ourselves time to purify and accept them.

If we manage to identify these five symptoms quickly, we will notice our state of drunkenness at the right time, which allows us to step back for a time, which has a very positive effect on our balance.

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