What do you think is the worst feeling of all?

apathy

Betrayal

Feeling lost

doubt!

When you get your clothes out of the dryer and most of them feel perfectly dry and warm, and then you put on a pair of pants that’re still a bit damp, and you’re like “Aw what’s with that?” but it’s not damp enough to make you take them off and wait for them to dry, so you just kinda sit around in these uncomfortable semi-damp pants waiting for them to dry off.

I think that’s about as bad as it gets.
And I definitely don’t want anybody else to have to go through that torture.

I’m going with “abandonment”.

@Sarcasm Hell yes. Hate that.

But I can’t believe no one got it right.
The answer you’re looking for is Hopelessness.

Grief is the worst
The “unknown” is pretty scary
hopelessness is the saddest, since it so treatable.

the feeling like nobody cares about you .

I agree with @YARNLADY. Grief over the loss of someone you really love is the worst feeling I’ve ever experienced.

lurve to @AC, betrayal is the worst. Hurting the person you love the most is something you never forget.

I think they were talking about BEING betrayed.

@Piper_Brianmind I’ve betrayed someone that I love. I know the feeling that I’m talking about. :(

@jonsblond I meant AC. But yeah, I guess I’ve betrayed people too. Out of paranoia that they had betrayed me first. It was one big shitstorm.

Hopelessness

@Piper_Brianmind Either way is terrible, that’s why I agreed with AC. I’ve been betrayed and I’ve betrayed someone that I love. Being the betrayer is just terrible because you can’t take the action back. It’s been 8 long years since I betrayed someone that I love and I still can’t forgive myself.

Gotta agree with @YARNLADY. Grief of a loved one (especially if it’s your child!) is the worst thing (unless it’s Charlie Brown’s Good Grief!”).

Also @AC- There’s only room on Fluther for one AC, and _I’m him! _:)

So far in my personal experience I would have to say grief over the death of a parent.

Despair.

fear the big kind that feel like its crushing you into jelly….and the unshakable knowing of having done something truly crap and not being able to undo it

I would say Rejection for me. [see love]

Also when you find out you’ve been used (not betrayal) but when you find out you were only a puppet in someone’s sick twisted game…
and, being falsely accused of something…
and loneliness is pretty suck too :(

the feeling that I live between stupid people

…

For me, it’s definitely been feelings of betrayal and abandonment. My last break up about 5 years ago was absolutely devastating in every sense of the word, and in every aspect of my life. It was by far the most painful thing I’ve ever been through, and that includes physical pain, of which I’ve had a lot. I would much rather go through any physical pain than go through the emotional pain like I went through before. In all likelihood, that must be part of the reason I’ve been a little gun-shy to get in to another serious relationship, even now, five years later. When I shattered my leg snow-boarding about 10 years ago and had to go through several surgeries and months and months of re-hab, I was still back up on the mountain in less than a year. For me, that emotional pain caused by the feelings of abandonment and betrayal was the absolute worst, by far.

Just before and after when you throw up. I’d say its like everything here combined.

fear, not so much anymore, but at one time it virtually ruled my life.

Feeling futile is really dismal in my opinion.

Dread

I hate the feeling when on one cares about you and that your being ignored.
I don’t like feeling sad because then I get emotional and cry and I don’t like facing the bad times in life.
Seeing or hearing somebody die.:( It was sad.I saw my puppy die and I can never get it out of my head.I cry once in a while for him.;(

Uselessness! I hate feeling useless to anyone, because it tends to lead to other depressing emotions like a never ending, downward spiral staircase! At least that’s how it makes me feel, and that’s why I hate feeling it!

Anxiety!

feeling alone. (not that this is always a bad thing, but there are moments where it occurs so intensely that you feel swallowed by it, as if you’ll never be happy again)

Feeling stuck and directionless.

Grief over the unexpected death of your child.

Betrayal, as it can ruin your life. It brought on my recent depression and resultant suicidal thougths. To think I was going to kill myself because some lying bastard decided I wasn’t worthy of his respect or friendship, and that placing his shortcomings on me somehow absolved him of his faults. I would love to be indifferent about him, but still, I find myself thinking how’ll happy I’ll be when he is DEAD or at the very least, utterly destroyed.

Dispair
Hopelessness
Nausea
Dread

Anxiety would have to be it for me. I have had horrible problems with anxiety a few times in my life. Sometimes the attacks were so bad and lasted so long that I couldn’t even leave my apartment. And the way it makes my stomach feel – nauseous, unsettled, burning with pain, empty…not tolerable at all.

Thank the good Lord for Xanax.

@tinyfaery I don’t think that dead is a feeling maybe you meant knowing that you’re gonna die and you can’t do anything to stop it

Hopelessness. It seems to me that as long as there is at least a little tiny grain of hope in there somewhere, one can keep moving forward. Without hope what’s the point?

Dread, not dead.

Sandpapering your eyeballs ranks up there.

@AstroChuck – when I was a teenager I read that models sandpapered their face to achieve beautiful skin. I found some 40 grit of my dad’s and went to work. Needless to say I walked around with a big patch of horrible brushburn on my nose and right cheek for days after that. I didn’t get to my left cheek, I was too busy trying to stem the blood flow from nose and right cheek.

Now that was a pretty damned painful feeling, not to mention stupid!!!

Helplessness.

Betrayal.
Witness my parents death was devastating, and I have friends who have buried their children, which must be worse, but betrayal is the cruelest of cruelties.

Excellent answers, even the one about the wet jeans.

Hopelessness was my thought, as far as emotions I have experienced.

Grief over the death of my daughter would be devastating. This would be the answer to what I think the worst feeling in the entire world would be. I hope I never know what that is like and I am so very sorry you do. :(

loneliness to the point of despair.

To add a little meat to the bones of my original answer.

I did mean being betrayed but I go along with the idea that betraying someone else, and having a conscience about it, is no bed of roses either.

With the support of a loved one it can be easier to work through some of the emotions described throughout this thread. It can give you a base to work from.

If that loved one betrays you at the same time you can be left trying to deal with it all whilst in free fall. Your whole map of the world is rearranged.

It’s like those nightmares where you think you have woken up only to realise that you’re still in it and the place of safety you thought you’d emerged to isn’t there at all.

Falling is one thing, doing it without a safety net is a whole different experience.

AC

The heartache that comes with losing someone you really love. I would rather die than experience that feeling again.

I forgot one: abandonment., which I guess is a form of betrayal. When I think of how many decisions I’ve made in my life based on the fear of being rejected and abandoned… If I weren’t afraid of such a thing, I know I’d be in a much different place in my life today.

I have to agree with abandonment.

When you have a childhood first freind best freind and you lose her in troubled times when your 6 years old and you think of her all your life in such a way that allways made you feel better when your feeling bad and reunite with her 39 years later after lifes ups and downs and you feel like your world was all worth it and your lifes circle was connected and you both feel the same old connection you had as kids. We did allmost another 4 years together threw some of the best times of my life mixed with some of the worst hurtfull times, seeing her x husband would not drop out of the picture caused alot of heartach for me so many times I forgave her to only at the end lose her to someone else. That rejection,feeling betrayed, abanded, felt like being nailed to a cross when now its like with her we never even exsisted. all my years of thinking about her.Yes I wanted to die. too her i do not and have never exsised, or I am just a laugh or a pysco because I caught her in so many lies. yes this all fits in the catogory of abandonment and betrayal, its been over two years and it still hurts , i guuess it will the rest of my life.