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Why is it that I feel so much empathy for people?
The guy who lives upstairs from me is an alcoholic. He stumbles around in the night and wakes us up, he throws up loudly every morning and makes me feel sick. I feel deeply sorry for him. My boyfriend can't understand why I feel sorry for him. My boyfriend is just annoyed by him, and the fact that I feel sorry for him, makes my boyfriend even more annoyed.
Yesterday I heard about what happened to Amy Johnson. It made me cry. I bet it did't make anyone else cry. Shouldn't my incessant video gaming have de-sensatized me to things like this by now?
I can't bare anyone to be dissapointed. It gives me an awful hollow feeling inside.
I can't look at the shocking picture of chemical and biological warfare victims that appear in the papers, because I wouldn't be able to stop myself crying.
Sometimes I feel that I have no right to be happy unless every one in the world is happy. I feel guilty when I am happy.
I feel guilty every time I walk past a homeless person. Especially because I have so much and I don't give something to everyone of them.
I wonder if there is something wrong with me that I feel this way. I don't know anyone else who feels this "World Pain".
The guy who lives upstairs from me is an alcoholic. He stumbles around in the night and wakes us up, he throws up loudly every morning and makes me feel sick. I feel deeply sorry for him. My boyfriend can't understand why I feel sorry for him. My boyfriend is just annoyed by him, and the fact that I feel sorry for him, makes my boyfriend even more annoyed.
Yesterday I heard about what happened to Amy Johnson. It made me cry. I bet it did't make anyone else cry. Shouldn't my incessant video gaming have de-sensatized me to things like this by now?
I can't bare anyone to be dissapointed. It gives me an awful hollow feeling inside.
I can't look at the shocking picture of chemical and biological warfare victims that appear in the papers, because I wouldn't be able to stop myself crying.
Sometimes I feel that I have no right to be happy unless every one in the world is happy. I feel guilty when I am happy.
I feel guilty every time I walk past a homeless person. Especially because I have so much and I don't give something to everyone of them.
I wonder if there is something wrong with me that I feel this way. I don't know anyone else who feels this "World Pain".
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Damn right
time alone is among the most valuable time a person gets.
I feel depressed when I'm alone. I live in a village a few miles away from anywhere, and can never go round to any mates' houses without getting driven there. Which my parents do. I'm often alone in the house, and often bored. SR is kind of my salvation, because at least here I can talk to other people.
Although that might come back to me not letting them
To a degree
SHEEPY wrote:
> Orignal Post
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> I find myself a walking contradiction sometimes... they're many people
> I know and I don't like yet if anything bad was to happen to them I'd
> still feel compassion somewhere. I don't like seeing people getting
> hurt in anyway, physically or mentally etc. I seem to care for people
> too much yet I get the impression anyone outside my family doesn't
> care about me.
Not even your friends?
> Orignal Post
>
> ----
>
> I find myself a walking contradiction sometimes... they're many people
> I know and I don't like yet if anything bad was to happen to them I'd
> still feel compassion somewhere. I don't like seeing people getting
> hurt in anyway, physically or mentally etc. I seem to care for people
> too much yet I get the impression anyone outside my family doesn't
> care about me.
Not even your friends?
Orignal Post
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I find myself a walking contradiction sometimes... they're many people I know and I don't like yet if anything bad was to happen to them I'd still feel compassion somewhere. I don't like seeing people getting hurt in anyway, physically or mentally etc. I seem to care for people too much yet I get the impression anyone outside my family doesn't care about me.
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I find myself a walking contradiction sometimes... they're many people I know and I don't like yet if anything bad was to happen to them I'd still feel compassion somewhere. I don't like seeing people getting hurt in anyway, physically or mentally etc. I seem to care for people too much yet I get the impression anyone outside my family doesn't care about me.
Pikmin wrote:
> 1) If I became an alcoholic what would you do?
send you to therapy and regulate your alcohol supply.
> 2) If Flat mate was an alcoholic, what would you do?
send him to therapy and try to regulate his alcohol supply.
> 3) Would you blame them and say it was their fault for getting into
> that state and not help them because it was them who got them into
> that way in the first place?
I wouldn't "blame" anyone. Fault will be in place, and blame need not be apportioned so long as you don't believe that you're an alcoholic because daddy never hugged you enough.
> 4) When you are annoyed you go to drink and 9/10 get drunk.... don't
> say you don't.
No, when I'm annoyed, I usually try to go to sleep.
> I think that if I became an alcoholic, you wouldn't bring me down and
> throw me out of the house and be nasty.... you would reasure me and
> want to help me. Probably go and get professional help with me.....
> Stand by me. Wouldn't you?
I never claimed I wouldn't help someone who needed it.
> 1) If I became an alcoholic what would you do?
send you to therapy and regulate your alcohol supply.
> 2) If Flat mate was an alcoholic, what would you do?
send him to therapy and try to regulate his alcohol supply.
> 3) Would you blame them and say it was their fault for getting into
> that state and not help them because it was them who got them into
> that way in the first place?
I wouldn't "blame" anyone. Fault will be in place, and blame need not be apportioned so long as you don't believe that you're an alcoholic because daddy never hugged you enough.
> 4) When you are annoyed you go to drink and 9/10 get drunk.... don't
> say you don't.
No, when I'm annoyed, I usually try to go to sleep.
> I think that if I became an alcoholic, you wouldn't bring me down and
> throw me out of the house and be nasty.... you would reasure me and
> want to help me. Probably go and get professional help with me.....
> Stand by me. Wouldn't you?
I never claimed I wouldn't help someone who needed it.
Pikmin wrote:
> Now lets all be friends!!
Of course - I know he's an arrogant half wit and he knows I'm a bible bashing hypocrite - that's why we love each other so ;-)
> Now lets all be friends!!
Of course - I know he's an arrogant half wit and he knows I'm a bible bashing hypocrite - that's why we love each other so ;-)
Mendax Bartender:
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1) If I became an alcoholic what would you do?
2) If Flat mate was an alcoholic, what would you do?
3) Would you blame them and say it was their fault for getting into that state and not help them because it was them who got them into that way in the first place?
4) When you are annoyed you go to drink and 9/10 get drunk.... don't say you don't.
I think that if I became an alcoholic, you wouldn't bring me down and throw me out of the house and be nasty.... you would reasure me and want to help me. Probably go and get professional help with me..... Stand by me. Wouldn't you?
Until you really know about alcoholism, and you've been with someone cloesly who has it, I dont think it is anyone's place to judge. I think once you've been there and then sorted yourself out, you can help others to see.
Flanders:
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I am sorry to hear about your wife/Girlfriend being an alcoholic.
In future, dont rise to what anyone says about it. You know what you know and he knows what he knows. no-one will ever change their opinion about this. Keep your thoughts away from forums like these, so people cant contradict you and make you mad/angry.
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Now lets all be friends!!
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1) If I became an alcoholic what would you do?
2) If Flat mate was an alcoholic, what would you do?
3) Would you blame them and say it was their fault for getting into that state and not help them because it was them who got them into that way in the first place?
4) When you are annoyed you go to drink and 9/10 get drunk.... don't say you don't.
I think that if I became an alcoholic, you wouldn't bring me down and throw me out of the house and be nasty.... you would reasure me and want to help me. Probably go and get professional help with me..... Stand by me. Wouldn't you?
Until you really know about alcoholism, and you've been with someone cloesly who has it, I dont think it is anyone's place to judge. I think once you've been there and then sorted yourself out, you can help others to see.
Flanders:
========
I am sorry to hear about your wife/Girlfriend being an alcoholic.
In future, dont rise to what anyone says about it. You know what you know and he knows what he knows. no-one will ever change their opinion about this. Keep your thoughts away from forums like these, so people cant contradict you and make you mad/angry.
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Now lets all be friends!!
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