Is Regret the worst emotion you can feel?

[saddavyd]

I am carrying so much regret now that I no longer enjoy life, apart from a few moments which seem to be able to keep me going at the moment.

These regrets are for decisions made that I now regret because they have resulted in massive losses in my life that I'm struggling to live with. I am so low because it's my fault. Sometimes I think it is self-harm and will escalate to suicide.

I don't think I am feeling guilty about these decisions I made. It's definitely regret and it is slowly destroying me.

Is there any emotion that is worse than regret?

 

[luxsuircides]

i feel like reoccurring emptiness might be on the same level as regret. when life gets to a point that it feels like a cycle every day.

 

[Pidgeons_Sparrows]

one of the worst ones yeah

 

[hermestrimegistus]

Regret. Shame. Those tie for second. The worst emotion is love. Love is pain and vulnerability. Probably the worst emotion there is. Love can make you its bitch. Enslave a person. I hate it

 

[letmejoindeath]

I am carrying so much regret now that I no longer enjoy life, apart from a few moments which seem to be able to keep me going at the moment.

These regrets are for decisions made that I now regret because they have resulted in massive losses in my life that I'm struggling to live with. I am so low because it's my fault.

I don't think I am feeling guilty about these decisions I made. It's definitely regret and it is slowly destroying me.

Is there any emotion that is worse than regret?

No. People will also never believe you have "changed" anyways. Even if you try moving past it and not letting it define you, other people will let it define you.

 

[brokeandbroken]

I'd say hopelessness is probably the worst. I think everyone has some sort of regret. It sucks but it's manageable. Hopelessness sucks the life from your marrow.

 

[SVEN]

Despair.

 

[paintedbutterfly676]

Regret is horrible. It eats at you, and sticks to you, following and consuming all your happiness until you are stuck in the past

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

I am paying dearly right now for impulse-driven decisions associated with being on the autism spectrum. I've lost everything. I can definitely feel your pain.

 

[outrider567]

I am carrying so much regret now that I no longer enjoy life, apart from a few moments which seem to be able to keep me going at the moment.

These regrets are for decisions made that I now regret because they have resulted in massive losses in my life that I'm struggling to live with. I am so low because it's my fault. Sometimes I think it is self-harm and will escalate to suicide.

I don't think I am feeling guilty about these decisions I made. It's definitely regret and it is slowly destroying me.

Is there any emotion that is worse than regret?

Can't think of one, regret is killing me also

 

[R_N]

Any emotion that has high intensity and is trying to force me to do something I don't want is annoying.

Controling emotions and devaluing them became a mini game for me over the years with all the stuff I had to go through.

 

[carac]

Despair/hopelessness I think is the worst, also personally I think fear

 

[FadingSunshine]

I've heard hope is horrible because it'll entice you to power through the pain/suffering.
But the worst emotion to actually FEEL that comes to mind is regret, specifically if an action of mine hurt someone else, then I'm seeing the consequences of my action and I'm absolutely appalled.

 

[makebelieve]

i regret alot of the things i could have avoided happening that lead to this...

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Its one of them. So frustrating you can't change the past.

 

[Ernest1964]

Indifference is pretty rough.

 

[ManByTheRiver]

i feel like reoccurring emptiness might be on the same level as regret. when life gets to a point that it feels like a cycle every day.

I second this, emptiness eats you away the same as regret, it makes you a husk of a person.

 

[leavingsoon99]

I don't think so. Everyone's going to die with some regrets. No one's life is ever "as planned." To me, loneliness is the worst. Not being alone, but just feeling lonely. A room full of family can make you feel lonely. Being alone isn't bad, but being lonely sucks.

 

[Wouldpecker]

I think regret is a compounding feeling. If you're lonely, it'll make that worse. If you're sad, it'll make that worse. If you hate yourself, it'll make that worse. My regret is a large part of why I want to CTB. It could have been better, but I screwed it up.

 

[Readytogohome]

Grief is the worst emotion I have experienced. Grief from loss. It feels like being torn apart.

 

[willowisnotpillow]

regret is indeed the worst emotion in my opinion as it is the only emotion which you cannot actually do anything about. other emotions had a way of soothing them or putting right what made you feel that way, but regret is not possible to resolve. you just have to wait for it to pass.

 

[voyager]

Regret is a bad one, especially if the effects are felt to this day. What helps a little is acceptance though. If one regrets, one probably would undo the decision, but in truth, without the benefit of hindsight and with the same information at hand, one is damned to make the same mistake every time. Basically, we never had a chance.

Shame was mentioned, it's similar and often likewise irreversible. Guilt feeds off both.

And yes, love is another shit one. Apart from vulnerability and making one it's bitch, it can also lead to degradation. Another disgusting emotion/experience.

Despair is actually better than false hope, imho.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Regret is an awful emotion sometimes. It can make a person rehash past events in their brain which they cannot change anymore; ruminating over what "could" have been, or what "should" have been, and no matter how hard a person tries to imagine things being different... nothing changes in reality. You feel anxiety for making a wrong choice, but even more anxiety at the inability to change that choice; you to try to forget, but forgetting evokes guilt because you feel the need change the mistake... except you cannot. A viscous cycle.

It is like standing in front of a glass window. At the other side of the window is a residual image of yourself making a terrible mistake. You try to bang, and shout, but your reflection does not respond. You have no choice but to watch. You are close, so close, and yet completely powerless.

 

[bigdipper420]

Its up there with shame for sure

 

[colorlesshue]

i believe it's a runner up to emptiness.

 

[saddavyd]

Thank you for your comments. Day after day now I'm waking up in pain. Living in a house where I don't feel at home because of the choice I made, that I didn't need to. I can't go home until I accept that home is somewhere else. It is too painful to do that. So I have no home. Just a house to live in. My strong desire to ctb has weakened, but I won't carry on for too much longer if I carry on feeling like this. I've tried hard enough.

 

[annique]

regret, hopelessness and anxiety surely make to my top 5 worst feelings

 

[princexhhn]

one of, i think. cause its not like we can turn back time to satisfy whatever made us feel that way in the first placeT-T

 

[cutecats12]

Hopelessness is the worst thing ever