2007-01-03 06:04:10 · 9 answers · asked by The Killer is Me 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
i knew this guy who wasn't happy unless he was miserable and had something to ***** about. if i brought up bad things in my life, he'd always tell me about his, at long length, which was usually worse and it would piss me off. i wasn't competing, but it sure felt like he was
2007-01-03 06:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by izaboe 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Huh? What are you saying? That people like that bother you more than they do me? Nobody is more bothered than me by that problem. I'm tortured by it. It gives me the sleep of the damned, and my hair is turning white from it and I suspect my liver is failing more every time I hear it (or that could be the drinking). When people claim their lives are more miserable than mine, I feel like a pair of tongs that fell out the Spanish Inquisition is tearing at my entrails (do people have entrails?) I go to showings of Le Miserables and shout at the actors that they are definitely not more "miserables" then me. (I don't really like that show anyway).
You're not winning. Don't think for a moment that you're winning.
2007-01-03 14:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by Benji 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, yes, many do. Just listen to many of the "I can top that" conversations that go on. It seems as though the old term "misery loves company" has grown to new heights - misery feeds on itself, especially in the presence of an audience. Best cure - get around more positive thinking or at least more positive talking people. Whenever you catch yourself feeling sorry for yourself, stifle it and sing a happy song or do a happy dance (have you seen "Happy Feet"? or something. Get away from all that negativism and you'll notice more positive types of competition - like counting your blessings.
2007-01-03 14:14:23 · answer #3 · answered by candy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, It's called Group Therapy and if you are paying by the hour to listen to other problems on top of yours, you need to find a better job and a good hobby. There's room enough for us all to be ourselves and forgive ourselves and forgive others, without the agony and boredom of Group Therapy!
2007-01-03 14:41:23 · answer #4 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but when it is over and both of u have dumped it makes the clarity of what is left that u do like easier to obtain and sustain there are no clear times to achieve these dumping but it does make it quicker if both of you play it out and rise back up to your former levels quickly and move on, the bath room dumps one end and the mind dumps the other
2007-01-03 14:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by bev 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes. Especially when they're teenagers. Nope, then again, everyone does. Hardly anyone would admit it right away, though.
2007-01-03 14:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Viki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well when i was a small boy my mother used to tie a rasher of bacon to a piece of string and me and my ten brothers and sisters would get to chew it and the piece of string was to pull it back out if one of us swallowed it.
2007-01-03 14:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When they are feeling needed of attention, comprehension and care
2007-01-03 14:10:34 · answer #8 · answered by Tere 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea to get attention
2007-01-03 17:01:31 · answer #9 · answered by Dee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋