[Plokoon111]

Alright I'm 20 years old, and I never really show my feelings, or vent, or cry. But I do and can easilly, as a guy I've been brought up like that. Which is fine and makes sense, but I have thin skin. I can take a punch or get into a fight, but I can't take words or screaming well unless I can expect it to happen.

But anyway I have a group of friends I've been hanging out with who are mostly awesome and get along with. Were all cool and can be werid at times but aren't we all? But yesterday I just had this depressing meltdown and didn't talk hardly at all til my friend went out to talk to me and I started crying, and venting all my frustrations that I'm dealing with right now in my life like school, lack of motivation, relationship worries, my mother, issues with my body, thinking too much. And It was cool, but I think I may of freaked a lot of people out. My few friends helped me out in this low point and I left and went home to get some sleep. Waking up today, It felt like a nightmare only to know that it was indeed true. Do you think it is good to stay with friends who know your weaknesses, and do this? Or do you think they think I'm nuts. I'm thinking there true good friends if they could handle me in that state.

Your last statement is the litmus test. Good friends worth being around and hanging with will not only know your strengths and weaknesses but are willing to stick by you and support you in spite of your weaknesses. I can't say whether those particular friends will do that or think you're "nuts". Hopefully the former.

I think that it's a good thing to know your friends before revealing too much about yourself in the beginning but sometimes it's not in your control like what happened to you and you shouldn't be frowned upon for that, you didn't do anything wrong. The silver lining in this is that the people worth your time and energy will show their true colors from this and in the end I'm sure you'll be able to trust them more and have a great friendship ahead of you!

[Leed]

I agree with the previous poster. You'll find out if you "weirded" them out or not. But I have a feeling that you did NOT. You've been hanging with them awhile, and I would bet that they understand and probably wish they could do the same thing more often. They probably think you're pretty cool to be able to show your feelings easily (or what THEY perceive as "easily).

The next time you hang out with them, don't even bring it up. Just act as everything is normal, unless you feel you NEED to make some sort of "apology" for it. You could say that this isn't your normal behavior but you just melted down from too much stress and that you trusted them.

I wish you the very best. I'm glad you felt close enough to these guys to be able to talk to them like that. Not too many people have friends like that. God bless and please take care of yourself. Hugs, Lee