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I'm a very sensitive person… sometimes I feel like I'm acting overly sensitive… whenever something sad happens in a book, movie,TV show, graphic novel,etc. I start to cry big crocodile tears. For example, when my mom tells me storys about abused children, and shows pictures of dead baby's body dumped in garbage cans,I cry for 2 hours. Whenever I watch those commercials about starving children and abused animals I start crying. When I watched a video with children seeing their dad's come back from the military and run to them so happy,I start crying. As I'm writing this I'm crying. It can be stuff like that, or dumb stuff like in the lion king, when Mufasa died and Simba was upset,I started crying. In the hunger games when Ru got shot I started crying. When I read in a book a kid started to die because he saved his friends from zombies I started to cry. When I hear about how slaves are treated I cry. When I heard a story about a girl and boy in India who got raped and beat up, then were slowly dying on the streets but no one would help them I cried. I recognize and depressed over things that others don't even notice, like the Yanomami tribe, when I read about them,I cried a bit. But when I told my friends, they just said that was sad. Am I too sensitive?????? (link)
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No problem. If you feel a strong emotion then it's much better to express it than suppress it. If you keep forcing your emotions down and not expressing them at all it can make you behave, or feel a bit odd in other ways...so if a movie scene or a sad news item touches you, have a bit of a cry. Hopefully you feel a bit 'liberated' afterwards? Like you've dealt with the emotion, feel a little more free of it, maybe you feel a sense of calm...not so worked-up about it, or about other things? If so, that's a really good thing! As we get older we mostly tend to get a little 'de-sensitised' to things...meaning we don't feel things quite as spotaneously or deeply, and don't want to let it show when we do. Mainly because we've seen and experienced more. But it's great to keep in touch with your emotions, happy and sad. So don't try and force a 'so what?' attitude onto yourself. The happiest people can laugh and love, and hurt and cry freely. You're doing fine.
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It really helped me just to hear you say that I was normal. You will never know how much you helped.
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