You may know a certain emotion is damaging you, and at the same time it seems to have some value - you can't quite say what. Massive philosophies have been constructed around the idea that you need emotions. Also, most people aren't even clear about what an emotion is . For example, most people define love as an emotion. Real love is a state of being .
People think ecstasy is an emotion.
Since many people have never experienced even an instant of complete health, for them ecstasy is only an overriding good feeling, such as a strong taste or a sexual climax, before an instant or a few minutes overrides the general disorder of their physical, mental, and emotional state. It pulls everything together into a pattern that approximates real ecstasy but is probably something less than that. For example, the ecstatic experience of a sex addict having an orgasm may very well be a blend of good and bad feelings , just as being drunk is. The bad feelings actually strengthen the good feelings for the experiencer, and this strengthening is necessary so that the person can tell himself or herself that they're experiencing something really wonderful. They think it's wonderful because it's so strong.