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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Feb 2, 2024 ^^
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I would say I'm neither overly empathetic nor defensive. I'm mostly just hypervigilant—if I sense that someone is in a bad/tense mood, I literally cannot pull my eyes away from them. I don't really act or say anything, I'm basically just frozen, observing every nuance of their body language and heart pounding a mile a minute. I guess in my head I am sorta going through and trying to trace back to when their tense mood started and whether I did anything to cause it.
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I tend to lean mostly to the side of assuming I caused other people's moods. Where does that come from? Hmmm... Well that's how it felt often as a child and teenager. When I wanted or needed my parents it often had the potential to upset, frustrat and burden them. They could suddenly get very loud, mad, sad or all of the above. Sometimes it would feel like my mere existence was just too much for them and they couldn't handle to be around me at all. As a kid, you don't understand they are responsible for their own mood and/or they have their adult problems. I just wanted them to love me and feel happy to be with me. How could you not turn that inward and start trying to figure out "what did I do?" "How can I act differently to make their life easier and keep them around more?" It caused decades of intense people pleasing and anxiety without ever feeling good enough still. These days, I try to remember just to focus on my own mood. You find that most days, that coworker sighing has very little to do with you at all. Other people have their own lives going on. I'm just not really as big a deal in people's lives as I used to be in the toxic family system. And it feel great to just let myself exist more and more.
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As a kid, I knew that the moods of the adults in the house were not my fault; but I also knew that I was at their mercy, and had no real power to fight back or speak my mind or get them to see that they were taking their frustrations out on the rest of us.
That feeling of helplessness, of powerlessness endures to this day, and when I can, I tend to stay the hell away from other people, so as not to have to bear the brunt of their inability to process their emotions.
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@cinnabun715
3 months ago
Other people’s anger is TERRIFYING
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