Title basically says it all.
Savagely suppressed emotions since childhood, severly detatched.
Started opening up, allowing myself to be vulnerable with GF over the period of 3+, I was able to start crying and crying and crying, crying more than her at one point (and she's a very emotional individual).
Well that settled down eventuallyl.
I was still having triggers everywhere, because I ended up with a bunch of new ones, because Psychiatrist repeatedly triggered me over 8 months.
Things on the news, stuff online online, ended up trying to get anger management group, that didn't happen, something their side.
In the the last few days though, rest of armour came off, all walls down, before only had been able to show and be emotional with my GF in private.
Now I'm even MORE sensitive, emotions are even more overpowering,
and I don't know what to do or how to handle htem, because they're been suppressed my entire life.
To give an idea just how much, once walls were down, even reading someones title in a post, set me off, and I tried to handle it best I could, but it was all around me, and I lost my cool (not completly) and told them they should try to be considerate, how can they be so oblivious to everyone else here when this person or another knew we were all hyper-sensitive to emotion, that there's a difference between sharing emotion, and inflicting it on as many people as can unecessarily.
I felt bad about that afterwards, even though I was right.
My first write through of this was more expressive/off the page as it were, this 2nd attempt seems calmer, but it's really not.
Is there a protocol or something for someone who's been shut off and numb and detatched for life, now in the open, and emotions are just, I don't know what to do.
They are making my hyper-responsibility(OCD)(which I just did a thread about) and a compulsion helping others (problem solving) all that more frequent and difficult to fix/deal with.
I also have compulsion to correct stuff as well because of childhood.
Any thoughts, suggestions, any at all, are welcome.
I'm ok with being a guy and being sensitive and showing pain and all that, but this is something else.
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