Autism and strong emotions

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I'm going crazy under this covid-19 stuff...

Anyway my emotions are overwhelming me...

But I seem to feel emotions, all them, like 10x more than what I see by any sort of NT I think and is it Autism or Bipolar??? Something else???

I'm not talking about bipolar ups and downs, I'm talking about all the time.

When I'm sad I'm really sad, happy really happy, angry really angry, leads to meltdowns, etc... It's not just one feeling but every feeling...

Mood stabilizers help me from going extreme depression/mania but emotions still really strong... Hate it.

Try to find the calm center of yourself, and check in often enough you never lose touch. Most meditations involve paying attention to your breathing, so after some practice, just taking a couple of deep breaths can be like sitting on the beach, just listening to the surf. Adepts say that the emotions become like messengers, not realities.

Children often show their emotions very clearly, even the NT ones, right? I think that, as most people grow, they learn to not let any of their feelings show as strong as they did as a child. If someone has not learned this for one reason or the other, they might look like their feelings are a lot stronger, in both good and bad, and you might be one of these people.

The neurological variant that produces Aspergers may be a result of more complex, more sensitive, or faster neurology. This may produces stronger and more quickly acting emotional reactions. While one can work to mask reactions so that they do not unsettle those around us, It may also be helpful to construct mental filters such that we can restrict what we allow to reach us emotionally.

A person reading a book or watching a movie may open themselves up to emotional reactions until they reach a point where the main character does something stupid and brings consequences upon their own head. Writers sometimes use this sloppy technique to bring tension into their plot. However, it disconnects the reader/viewer from the empathy they have extended towards the character and may cause them to move on to other entertainment.

The ability to withdraw emotional openness is a helpful technique that can buffer one from a world that can be on occasion rather chaotic. If one expererinces an emotional roller-coaster from external stimuli, this can be a way to control those emotions. If one is dealing with an emotional roller-coaster that arises from internal sources, one may have to either learn mental disciplines to control those emotions, or find medications/supplements/ or diet that can mitigate them.

Excessively strong emotions and feeling many at the same time is an Autism thing.It is very common for many of us.I have the same issue. It's emotional overload and it is very similar to sensory overload. It is normal for an Autistic person. Just like so many of us cannot filter out or soften sensory input, we also cannot filter out or dampen emotional information. i also feel everything to the extreme all the time. Once you understand that this is normal for you, you don't have to be afraid of it and you can use it to become a stronger and more empathetic, sympathetic, and compassionate person.

It's one of my main struggles.

In a physical levels of sensation, I learnt for sometime as to how to 'take' it. I can so far to accept that I cannot take any more external stimuli -- yet executive dysfunction dictates the misuse of super focus.
There is a limit to it until I get overwhelmed and get discomfortable enough not to able to take more stimuli, let alone process.

In an emotional level, I disregard it in reflex. I grew up believing my emotions are not very 'safe' nor is 'appropriate', and it's too troublesome to have despite the lack of abuse involved -- it's simply the idea of 'me' that came with pride that comes to mind.
It's the reason why I cannot seem to be very upfront even to myself.
So I've yet to actually accept the fact that I'm emotionally intense when I kept perceiving half of my supposed emotions as wangst. Thus so far it doesn't make me more sympathetic, it just makes me more frustrated, creating meta-emotions that just doesn't help but complicates things.


So far, from what I found in my contrasting fluctuating functioning levels, there are two factors I found that can help and it's not 'insensitivity'/dulling nor necessarily 'filters'/blocking -- we couldn't seem to have that -- and no, becoming more alexithymic is not the answer either.
To "afford" intense emotions, it usually boils down to either the match of thresholds (how much you can take and manage at certain paces before any involving reactions) or internal processing (how much you can resolve in real time -- even the very how make a conscious use of it, more than to simply able to discern before it becomes too much to handle)

Otherwise, dealing with intense emotions are just hard or sometimes painful without a form of internal buffers in it, it's like trying to stop ocean waves.

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Autism spectrum conditions, including Asperger's are caused by neurological problems, including processing issues. This includes emotional processing issues. It can involve feeling an emotion too strongly, or not strong enough, or having several emotions acting at once, and too strongly at the same time.

I've struggled with this my whole life, but over time, as I grew older, I became somewhat better at handling it. However, several years ago I finally found real help by taking B complex vitamins. It has stabilized my moods for the most part. I know it works, because I have occasionally run out of them, or gone too far between doses, and then started feeling too emotional again. The problem goes away when I take the B complex vitamins again.

Now that I use the B complex vitamins I feel much better emotion-wise. The only real problem I still have with my emotions is that I still don't feel a strong emotional connection to anyone. I do feel sorry for others when bad things happen to them, so I do have empathy, but I don't feel any real emotional bond toward others.

I hope my suggestion for using B complex vitamins helps others, as it's helped me. Having my emotions all whacked out feels awful. Having them stabilized feels good, without a false sense of euphoria. You just feel more on an even keel, more like you should feel emotion-wise.

I cope poorly with heightened emotions in others - I think that this is mainly down to not knowing how to respond, comfort, placate or whatever.

Most of the time I dont exhibit outward signs of strong emotion as I have learned to keep them under control for the main part. Probably not a healthy thing to do but the times I have and do show more florid displays of emotion I find embarrassing and feel as though I am out of control. I really don't like it.

I do however experience strong emotions at times but tend to view them internally as an interesting or unusual thing and try to analyse where they are coming from, fear, anxiety, internalisation of other peoples emotions etc. This helps me maintain control of them as opposed to them controlling me - if that makes any sense.

Unfortunately for me, sensory overload is not that simple.It has a very damaging affect on me and I cannot hide the physical responses.

About 40 years ago I worked in a management position. I learned that my inability to not show an emotional reaction to an employee who had done something surprisingly wrong was not well received. Upon hearing bad news, I developed the habit of taking a walk around a less frequented part of the manufacturing plant so that I could allow the emotional energy to dissipate.

I think that both time and physical action may work together to discharge unwanted emotional intensity. This may be similar or related to the use of physical routines to calm anxiety.

I also have strong emotions. If a hot button of mine is pushed, my emotions will show. I find that my emotions are very heightened right now with COVID-19.