Is it normal to overreact over the smallest things?

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For some reason I tend to overreact and go to extremes when ever I feel hurt, insulted, or rejected in some way.

For example, I'll send a text/message to a friend and see that they've seen my message, but I never get a response back. In my mind it feels as if they're ignoring me...which hurts, so I start having vindictive feelings towards them and completely cut them off and delete them in my friend's list on social media.

Another example, I see other people being nice to others and giving them lots of love and affection. As I'm watching them from afar, I can't help but get upset because deep down I want love and affection too... but it rarely happens to me. It's like, why can't I have that special moment? Everyone seems to have someone that loves them, but except me. So then as I get home feeling like crap, I'll lock myself in my room and hug my pillow for comfort, silently crying in the middle of the night.

Is this normal at all, especially for a guy? :/

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  • Holzman_67
    7 years ago

    I think you're an emotionally needy person. I think it would help if you weren't so reliant on others to give you emotional comfort. This comes with appreciating yourself and your own company. All this social media is a gift and a curse, we feel like we need to turn to it whenever we're sad, angry, happy, whatever. We are using it as a release or a crux and it generally relies on gratification from others to help us with how we're feeling. When we don't get that, we feel even more alone. It's dangerous - and my advice would be to not use these technologies for that purpose. Next time you're feeling something don't go online and post about it, ride the emotion out. It's good for you, it's strength conditioning, you'll come out the other side. It's only normal with our moods and our hormones and the difficulties life presents us to have these highs and lows and you need to strengthen your own core and stop relying on others to do that.

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  • Lifeistooshorttotakeseriously
    7 years ago

    Egos... egos.. e just goes off!

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  • riffraffy
    7 years ago

    Anxious, insecure and mood swings mean you could be neurotic. Very common problem. Really only cure I've found is fulfillment. Focus on what you create more than what you consume. We each have a pool of willpower that starts to mess with our mind if it isn't emptied regularly. Improve.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    7 years ago

    No not at all you sound like a motherfucker bitch.

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