Is it normal to get too affected by sad stories?

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I just get too affected by sad stories. Just now, I read a comic about this zombie apocalypse and this old man they were with since it started died because he sacrificed himself for them, then, it's just so sad I feel like crying. I can't stop putting myself in their situation and what if something like that happened to me? I don't want anyone dying. I'd really cry myself out for months. And not just that story, it happens too when I watch a sad movie or a sad happening in a book or a sad ending, anything sad, and specially when someone just died in the story...even a sad song sometimes! I'd even find myself crying just because of a story. It's not real and I think I really shouldn't get affected by it but I just get too affected. I can't help it. I don't think it's normal?

Is It Normal?
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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago | pl

    If this was a zombie apocalypse wouldn't there already be a lot of dead people who didn't deserve to die much less be resurected?

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  • Zesty
    12 years ago | pl

    Your what they call an empath.. which is in my mind much better then not being able to feel anything at all. The problem comes in balance and learning how to achieve it. It's good that you feel strongly for that of others and characters in (comics?), but that might effect your day to day functionality making you depressed or just let alone taking enjoyment out of life.

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  • misschickadee123
    12 years ago | pl

    it's normal. i'm the same exact way. you know that chips 'ahoy commercial, the one where the cookie wakes up in the morning & excitedly says 'today... is the first day... of the rest of my life!' and then right as he finished saying that he gets eaten? i cried hysterically like a baby in the fetal position the first time i saw that, lol. just remember that without pain, we couldn't experience happiness & that everything happens for a reason. when it is something that's not real just try to remember that the person/thing in pain that you feel bad about really didn't go through any pain & it's all make-believe. i hope this helps, feel better =)

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