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Originally Posted by Yearning0723
I've always felt EVERYTHING more deeply than other people. I used to think everyone's emotions were this intense, but then I grew up and realized, nope, it was just me. But apparently my emotions aren't intense enough to warrant a clinical diagnosis, so there's that.
I know that I do interpret kindness as meaning much more than it actually does, but I don't know how to make small kind gestures LESS important to me, or even if that would be desirable. Hard to know whether feeling things less deeply would be a plus or a minus since I've never had that experience.
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Well, I think there's your answer. It isn't about feeling things differently (that may or may not be influenced over the long term with therapy), but about how you translate those feelings into actions--that you can control and change. So this is a perfect "test" situation. Instead of responding as you would most likely in the past, why not try a "calmer" and less intense way of showing your feelings this time? And then observe yourself and the relationship for clues to how the other person responds. It's a way of calibrating your responses.