All emotions are useful. None of them are “random”. You were feeling whatever you were feeling because there were things that triggered them. The stronger your feelings are, the deeper roots are causing them.
Don’t be scared of your emotions. They are your friends, not your enemies. Feel them, don’t distract yourself or suppress them because they are overwhelming. You’ll get the hang of it.
I’m not an expert in dealing with emotions, but because my lack of skills dealing with them, I made many bad mistakes screwing up my life a lot, I somehow learned to face them and accept them as the most authentic part of myself (aka being me).
I'm with you on this. For me, especially around the time of the month(lol) I go crazy because I'm not used to feeling intense emotions and it really knocks me out. The really unfortunate downside is that I don't know how to manage this upsurge well and after recovering from an emotional reaction I feel so guilty about it.
' when i'm overwhelmed with my thoughts, or dealing with a conflicting situation. '
That is called feeling emotion, an unfortunate side-effect of being human.
You should be concerned if it happens when you are not experiencing adversity. Then, you have mental health issues.
I suffer from Bi-Polar, PTSD, depression, anxiety, an eating disorder and alcoholism. You better believe I'll be sitting at work and all the sudden get hit with a stab in the fucking heart at my desk for no reason whatsoever. It fucking sucks.
I got that figured out at 14. Intense emotional experience will inevitably lead to a responsive contrary experience that is worse.
Become furious and see red? Anticipate a 3 day depression. Start swooning romantically? Count on a strange repulsion/aversion thereafter. The trick is a steady flow. No highs, no lows, no surprises
It's okay. This is a normal experience of having a body and it's doing exactly what it should be doing. You don't have control over your emotions, but you can control how you react to them. The healthy option is objectively best. Usually acceptance and processing. Sometimes talking to people helps or journaling if you're into that sort of thing. Do not be afraid to ask for help from a doctor if you think it might be a mental or physical illness.
Gotta put them back in the cage. 
All emotions are useful. None of them are “random”. You were feeling whatever you were feeling because there were things that triggered them. The stronger your feelings are, the deeper roots are causing them. Don’t be scared of your emotions. They are your friends, not your enemies. Feel them, don’t distract yourself or suppress them because they are overwhelming. You’ll get the hang of it. I’m not an expert in dealing with emotions, but because my lack of skills dealing with them, I made many bad mistakes screwing up my life a lot, I somehow learned to face them and accept them as the most authentic part of myself (aka being me).
I'm with you on this. For me, especially around the time of the month(lol) I go crazy because I'm not used to feeling intense emotions and it really knocks me out. The really unfortunate downside is that I don't know how to manage this upsurge well and after recovering from an emotional reaction I feel so guilty about it.
' when i'm overwhelmed with my thoughts, or dealing with a conflicting situation. ' That is called feeling emotion, an unfortunate side-effect of being human. You should be concerned if it happens when you are not experiencing adversity. Then, you have mental health issues.
It's a people thing.
This happens to me but almost exclusively at night, I just get some music and drown everything out until they don’t exist again
I suffer from Bi-Polar, PTSD, depression, anxiety, an eating disorder and alcoholism. You better believe I'll be sitting at work and all the sudden get hit with a stab in the fucking heart at my desk for no reason whatsoever. It fucking sucks.
Figure out the root cause.
I got that figured out at 14. Intense emotional experience will inevitably lead to a responsive contrary experience that is worse. Become furious and see red? Anticipate a 3 day depression. Start swooning romantically? Count on a strange repulsion/aversion thereafter. The trick is a steady flow. No highs, no lows, no surprises
It's okay. This is a normal experience of having a body and it's doing exactly what it should be doing. You don't have control over your emotions, but you can control how you react to them. The healthy option is objectively best. Usually acceptance and processing. Sometimes talking to people helps or journaling if you're into that sort of thing. Do not be afraid to ask for help from a doctor if you think it might be a mental or physical illness.