FEELING RATHER DOWN

Why does it feel like liking someone or at the very least being interested in someone always troubles your state of mind

When you like someone you find yourself thinking about the person throughout the day and it builds into a desire that you aren't (yet) fulfilling. It's your ID kicking your guts around demanding that you satiate it. Your mind is reasonable and wants to think it through, but the ID by definition is totally unreasonable. This is especially potent if you like someone more than you're admitting to yourself. Either way you end up with a feeling like something is missing or out of place. Or that could just be me.

No, wiglaf, that's pretty much one of the possibilities, and the most likely one for most people. Other possibilities are worry about screwing things up, worry that it won't work out because of factors you can't even control, worry that it will work out but you won't be ready... Most of which aren't a big deal if you keep steady through it and not panic. My advice, if you want it: The best thing to do is to try to cool down and think about things rationally as they approach the present. As you might think, it's harder than it sounds, but it's not a problem if you don't succeed in following it even anywhere near 100% so there's no need to worry too much about worrying too much. (Note: This is stuff I've gathered over the years from my own and my friends' experiences, and from logical advice. If it doesn't seem right for you, maybe it isn't, and you just need to find your own way over time.)

I feel quite down myself. But I have been for a minute. Not like anythings wrong though. I can't really explain it. Maybe guilt for something. Or fear of something to come. Who knows.

Well, Wallace, I'm glad to be able to have potentially helped. Corby, sorry to hear that. Since you can't explain it, maybe it's one of those things that just happens and passes inexplicably, or when you figure it out it will be easily solved. *shrug*

YOU SHOULD DISTRACT YOURSELF! If you share my gnat's attention span, it will do wonders and your brain will come back to it when it feels like it!

Ha, I know how you feel. When I like someone I think about them constantly, and with that comes all sorts of worry and nervousness. But there's a ton of beautiful things that come with it as well, so it evens out.