Boohoo... I was bullied most of my younger years (especially middle school) but you know what? I did something about it and that's what really got me into bodybuilding. Now I see people from time to time who had bullied me in the past and I laugh because how much better I am then they are. People that give up will not deserve my sympathy.
Sounds like you had a pretty tough past. Welcome to the club. Hope you find some help so you can excise the pain that all of that has caused (and still lingers). When you're ready, you'll find the right counselor, and you'll get everything worked out.
When you do, you'll discover that you won't laugh at how much better you are than other folks. Instead (hopefully, anyway), you'll have some insight into how nearly universal our human pain and disappointment is, and you'll see that most of us spent our early years entrusted to adults who also had defective childhoods, defective parenting, and who weren't taught how to look after kids.
When that day comes, you'll have shed many a tear for yourself (mostly for the loss of what could have been), and you'll have more sympathy for other folks, fools though they may be.
Well I'm sure if he was built people would back off a little. Bullies usually don't screw with people who fight back, no matter their size. They go for the ones that take it, and take it. And to the other guy who said one day I'll look back and realize what I missed? I do look back and realize what I missed, I'm a very caring person because of what happened and I'm not an asshole. This world isn't lovey dovey, it's survival of the fittest.
My neighborhood no joke is about 97% white. And 99% of my teachers or the ones that were around to witness the crap I went through were white. Socially I am screwed as I can almost never acquire emotional feelings for others, although I don't quite care I think it is nice because women can never hurt me.
Not that I mean to practice psychiatry without a license, but in general terms, this sounds like a fellow who's had sufficient pain inflicted, that the only way you could reduce the pain, has been to deny that it's there.Originally Posted by Ren
This is a favorite (and effective) way to deal with unpleasant emotions. Denial. The downside of this is, that after a while, they have to come out; and if you continue to keep the pain inside, it won't be long before you start to act weird in other ways. Some folks ultimately resort to drugs, some become violent, some become anti-social, or psychotic, or worse.
It's not unlike constipation. If you've got a turd inside, it's gotta be dealt with in a healthy way, or else (1) it'll eventually find its own way out, and you'll have a mess, or (2) everything will get impacted, and without medical help, you'll die.
"Emotional constipation." It's almost as common as pain. Lots of people never learn what to do about it, and they suffer all their lives. A good counselor can show afflicted folks what to do about this sort of thing. And they're not that hard to find.
. . . just a thought . . .
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