I'm rather sensitive to most things-- I cry during sad movies no matter how many times I have watched them. I even cried during areas of movies that were meant for comedy. When someone makes me do something I don't want to, tears come to my eyes. I also cry during good music and art. However, I've known to be a generally happy person who a lot of people claim 'is never upset'. When something bad happens, I go by the line of thought that thinking about it won't help so just live. On the other hand, my closer relatives claim I just don't have any feelings and don't care for others.
What the heck is wrong with me?
2007-08-16 03:13:31 · 9 answers · asked by Aida 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Being sensitive to one's own feelings is vital to mental health. However, it is more useful to recognize and acknowledge the source of the emotions. For example; are you crying at a "happy" part of a movie because you fear that you will never know such happiness? Then you must deal with your fear. It is very common for people who are constantly wrapped up in their own emotional life to be percieved by others as insenitive, because they are placing their own needs ahead of the needs of others in many cases. This may not be the case with you, but it is certainly something to consider. Maybe the real issue is that you don't really LIKE your family!
2007-08-16 03:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as your being sincere at being who ever you are
then that's all you need to worry about. As for family and friends in general, well they are always gonna notice little things about you and the way you choose to live and not
give you a moments peace so get ues to it. I was the same way you are when i was young, and i haven't changed accept that i'm a lot older than you so people don't pay a lot of attention to me and just write me off as nut's lol, and that's the way i like it cause people can be dangerous so you want to watch your back, see if your down on your self they comdem you for being a pitty seeker yet if your happy or confident then your narcisistic, and they hate you for it you , in plain english, you just can't win either way lol . . .
my wife love's me and excepts who i am and i do the same with her and that's all that matter's. Trust me there ain't a damn thing wrong with you, so save your self some grief
now, and build your life on the acre of land you own not
the acre of land others want to rent you . . . you don't need a land lord better to own than rent any ways, we come in this world alone and that is how we're going out, you've got to be you cause one day to soon you won't be any one any more.
A line from a song way befor your time but if this don't say it all i don't know what does . . . .
" I 'LL GO IT ALONE IF THAT'S HOW IT MUST BE,
HOW CAN I BE RIGHT FOR SOMBODY ELSE IF
I'M NOT RIGHT FOR ME? . . . "
Good Luck . . .
2007-08-16 11:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by Ben 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU are the authority on yourself and your truth. Others, especially others within the community of family, will often judge your actions based on their expectations of you. Often these expectations are wrapped up with assumptions about family identity. You grow up within a family, but also within a larger community that has different expectations of you, including the expectation that you will not draw too much attention to things that might disrupt business as usual. The conundrum here is that emotionally sensitive people like yourself are a constant reminder that human society does not always meet the needs of real human beings. If you appear insensitive, you may just be protecting yourself until you can speak your truth with confidence and the authority that comes with experience. There is probably nothing wrong with you. Honor what you recognize as genuine in yourself.
2007-08-16 10:53:27 · answer #3 · answered by metanoia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't sound like there is anything wrong with you. Your relatives might see you as inconsiderate but they haven't relayed it properly to you. And that's pretty normal too. I used to take for granted those who were closest to me because I trusted that they would always be there... Though eventually I realized that I wasn't being very nice and I grew up a little...
2007-08-16 11:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by mrskerlin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This just means that you are different around your family than you are around others. This is okay...it's normal and a lot of people are this way. You may have had to build up a kind of wall around you to be able to survive happily around your family. Maybe you are dubbed as "the strong one" or something. I don't claim to know how it is around your family....but this is how it sounds to me....
2007-08-16 10:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it amazing how "supportive" family can be? I know exactly what you're going through. You know what helps me -
making a list of what I'm thankful to God for. I think you're definitely compassionate when it comes to the movies. Maybe with people, the pain is too much to bear so you close yourself off to the feelings rather than feel it??? Dunno though.
God Bless!
2007-08-16 10:19:54 · answer #6 · answered by j b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can't see the real you. Some people come off in a different way, and kinda hard to read but there is nothing wrong with somebody that is hard to read. I am hard to read, you just gotta get to know me.
2007-08-16 10:23:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have what is known as an emotional disorder, as do i (yes, i cry during comedies myself, it's freekin' weird). go get some couseling, it seldom gets better on it's own. good luck.
2007-08-16 10:23:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nothing is wrong with you.
you are a lot like me.
2007-08-16 10:18:41 · answer #9 · answered by Sufi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋