Which would you choose among fear, anger and depression?

I’d have to choose depression. Anger makes my heart fibrillate. Fear is an extremely uncomfortable and debilitating feeling for me. Depression, I can manage.

I would choose anger; I am most familiar with that one.

Given a choice, and the choices aren’t very good, I would choose depression, perhaps for the same reason @jerv chose anger; I am most familiar with that one. But at least for me, I would disagree that anger is more motivating. I find fear to be fairly motivating. There have been a number of times in my life when I have accomplished things simply by diving in, getting in over my head, and succeeding, in spite of myself, only because my fear of failing and losing face was so overwhelming.

Pssshhhh, I have all three, and technically can have all three being a bit disassociative

I think your absolutely right, fear creates anger. Apparently not enough, because everyone is so drowned out on SSRI’s nothing is ever done, or could be.

Anger. 100 percent testosterone driven anger.

Anger, that’s my most common emotion, and when I have that deep, utter destructive rage where I would kill someone in a split second nothing feels better.

Anger I suppose but realistically I would just rather end my life if I had to live in a constant state of any of those three emotions you’ve mentioned.

Anger. Nice and warm.

I would choose happiness cause I’m like that.

I would choose anger among those three, but I am glad that is not the only range of my emotions.

Depression always feeds my creativity.

I am very familiar with depression. To me, it is to the soul what AIDS is to the body. I have heard it said that depression is anger directed inward. Every so often I can feel the anger rise to the surface and direct itself at something external.

Well let’s see….a choice of three negative emotions, sorta like choosing whether one wants to die by firing squad, poison or the gallows. lol

Anger I suppose, but, really, I’d choose making the best of things, regardless.

Anger….no question at all. Like you said, anger motivates me. I don’t mind being angry at all.

I hate the feeling of being angry. It doesn’t solve anything. To me, it may motivate, but it’s negative motivation, not postive. You are working against something instead of for something. I can deal with depression even though I don’t want to because it causes me to reevaluate myself and my goals. Like filmfan says, it inspires creativity. I am not one of those people who think you need to be depressed to be a serious artist but sadness is a gentle, introspective emotion. I think it has a lot to do with the search for meaning in life and having empathy for others. So even though it is painful I would choose it over anger. That said, of course, anger has its place. If your see injustice and cruelty in the world it is hard not to be angry. And it also inspires you to work towards change. If it doesn’t do that, however, it is empty, self-righteous anger.
Fear is the emotion I can identify with the most! I think I have always been more fearful than the average person. I have had to push myself all the way to not listen to my fears. I don’t want my fears to keep my from getting what it is I need and want out of life.

I’m very familiar with depression and that’s the one I would choose because I know how to manage it. Anger and fear are uncontrollable to me.

Depression seems like a more “comfortable” choice. I guess because I’ve had it for so long…lol?

@Keep_on_running you and me both… :-/

Anger.

I think depression is the worst of all three – it ruins lives. The others can too, but I think they’re easier to manage than depression because it warps the mind. Anger and fear are a close match. I would choose anger, I think.

Anger.

depression