Too Sensitive

[ilanikhan]

I was told often as a child that I was too sensitive.  I tried to hold it in, often resulting in an outburst.  I was labelled as difficult, a trouble maker.  I thought I was over it, I thought I had overcome it.  I'm still a sap, but I was master overy my feelings

Comments

[shyska]

I think the first legacy is fear, underneath the changed behaviors and hidden or interupted feelings and intuition.

"An action’s wrongfulness is irrelevant to the victim’s sensitivity" makes a lot of sense, but doesn't stop us blaming ourselves until (unless?) we become practiced at naming the wrong instead of ignoring and tolerating it.

[ironphoenix]

Fear is behind an awful lot of people's baggage... once burned, twice shy.

[ironphoenix]

Not allowing for people's emotions isn't right; unfortunately, it's the societal norm in many contexts, particularly the "professional" world, and parents and teachers sometimes buy into that rather than accepting that a person isn't whole without emotions, and they will find ways to come out even if they are repressed.