Well, it's hard Agony, for a sensitive person not to care at all. I had meant to write that I, too, am very sensitive to others' opinions. I have students write horrible, horrible things about me on ratemyprofessors.com and I get devastated by them. Even though I know that the students are very young and immature.

Perhaps the best we can do is to is what you have done -- reflect and recognize that the feelings are not warranted. It doesn't make them go away, but it does help me to stop dwelling on them.