Anyone here really sentimental?
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dpr
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Akira2O said:
I am too. I really relate to this.
I am not one of those "emo guys" or whatever, but I feel too much empathy for everything. Watching a movie where something sad happens is sometimes too much for me to take, whereas other people can just realize that it's a movie, they don't even seem to care. Today I heard a song on the radio about a guy's girlfriend dying (that Pearl Jam cover song) and it made me very sad. I can't watch the news ever for obvious reasons, and I try not to look at newspapers when I go to the store because I know if I hear about anything sad I will just think about it all day. Animal abuse is a big one too, or defenseless people being attacked.
I told my therapist about this once, and he referred to it as "being hypersensitive," and said it is likely a byproduct of my SA and OCD.
Maybe it's the same with you. I'm glad you posted this though, because I feel like this a lot.
lyricalliaisons
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I'm the exact same way. I'm far-too-way-beyond sensitive, empathetic, sympathetic & sentimental. It makes things really hard to deal with. I feel others' pain so deeply & since most of the time I can't help.. it just makes me feel worse.
Not really. I sometimes wish I was. I may like think of and try to feel bad for people and things sometimes, but I honestly end up feeling nothing. My emotions are pretty blank for the most part. I just have to idea how to express emotions at all. It's like I want to feel it sometimes, but I just can't. I don't think empathy and being sentimental are exactly the same thing either. It's just not something I'm good ag.
flyawayhome
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me too.. i can't relax and have fun like my other friends..
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whispering_screams
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Injustice of any kind really irks me. I hate it. Though if know i can't help someone or a situation I don't let it get to me that much because it's no good for them or for me. If I can do something that will make someone feel better, even temporarily, I have to do it otherwise I'd just be like people I'd known in the past, who could have helped me but didn't.
