How far will one go to drag another down with them?
2007-01-26 14:55:47 · 14 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Very far! Yes Misery will seek company. and take on almost a best friend roll to get it. Bend over backwards for you. Miserable people will do anything for company. They even think they are your friend but really they are twisted in their thinking even if they werent before they became miserable. Ive seen someone close to me flip all their beliefs and their personality around and tried their darndest to bring me down too. This was someone who used to be intelligent and loved me unconditionally. TRUST ME I KNOW THIS SUBJECT! SAW IT STUDIED IT AND LIVED IT
2007-01-26 15:08:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I believe that a great big chunk of the general population is walking around in a HIDEOUS mood. Thwarted in their own lives in some way, they stalk about looking for some innocuous individual to go to town on. I've seen the most despicable things in retail shops. People screaming at some poor beleaguered thing, DEMANDING to speak to her Manager NOW. Complete @ssholes. I view most strangers as potentially lethal weapons. I believe there are a great many of these hapless schmucks walking the earth with a great big chip on their shoulder just aching for trouble. I do my best to avoid unpleasantness, especially with strangers, so I feel at peace in San Francisco. Of course, I am always armed, which lends a certain confidence to any unpleasant situation which may arise.
2007-01-26 15:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about dragging someone down with them, but I do believe that miserable people seek out other miserable people, and I think that's because they're looking for validation for their lousy outlooks. (If someone else is miserable than I must be right kind of thinking).
I used to work with a person who, after being in the same room with them for about 20 minutes...I would actually feel like I was going to cry! They weren't necessarily rambling on to me about how rotten things were...it was just their whole aura. It actually felt like they sucked the energy right out of me.
2007-01-26 15:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Misery loves company and you need to stay away from them because they'll take you down with them if you allow it.My friends family is so bad I had never been to so many funerals until I got together with him.When I visit with his family that's all they talk about.Who died,who's in the hospital,who's getting divorced,etc.It's always something depressing or we're having a conversation and they'll start crying if its something bad happening in the family.So I try to avoid them as much as possible.
2007-01-26 16:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by Ms Lety 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. I also think that we like to find people more miserable than we are so we don't feel quite so badly about our own stuff.
I believe that people will drag others down with them as much as the others will allow--and sometimes that's way down there.
There are dangers in being miserable with company--danger that one will get all to do something worse than they would have if no one else would have suggested it.
2007-01-26 15:08:03 · answer #5 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some times some people are like misery magnets
the other side of it is - anyone not liking misery moves away from them so there is an emptyness they seek to fill.
Frued & Jong go into long diatribes about it how it affects others in different situations of depression and other like miseries
2007-01-26 15:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by earnest b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think misery will seek it out. How far?? As far as possible or until there is no more--a breaking point--an end.
2007-01-26 15:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by old_woman_84 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok i do not care that a lot for heaven it is indexed interior the bible, it appears like it must be boring to me besides... as for it being Non Judgmental what a load of garbage.... you're Judged in the previous you even get to there... from what i examine there is only a hand finished of those that are allowed into there and larger then in all probability there'll be no one which i ought to recognize and no thanks to have any relaxing at lest satin knows a thanks to have a good time even even if it isn't relaxing for the sufferer's, of his humor.. if there is only going to be a number of hundred people going to get into there why ought to you imagine it is a non judgmental position why is it only the few will ever get into it and under no circumstances all and sundry?
2016-10-16 04:06:06 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I think God brings people together who are in some sort of similar situation so that the two of them can help each other get by. 2 Corinthians 1:4 says that God "comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." That means to me that He brings us together to comfort, console, and help us through different kinds of relationships. I don't think it's about people dragging each other down, but about God bringing us up together :)
2007-01-26 19:32:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I tend not to bother others unless the bother me first, then it's gloves off I'm afraid.
2007-01-27 00:53:59 · answer #10 · answered by people are scum 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋