Good, bad and the ugly?

Find myself regressing to habits with my long time friends and mentor. Emotional seriousness and obsessiveness and snappish and sarcastic displays of my own frustration.

Wondering if anyone knows or could point me to a guide for the rude ways I deal socially with people, I need to find a baseline within relationships and be a good listener and retain advice. Looking for examples on how to handle life without pouring all intense energy and emotions into a bad relationship.

I'm not sure where to direct you.. I have never really had this issue except maybe in the sense that when I've been depressed in the past, I find it hard to be nice and social to people who are ignorant to the suffering of others.

Maybe volunteer somewhere or do something nice for someone; getting out of yourself and seeing someone benefit directly from your actions might help shake you out of the seriousness and sarcastic tendencies.

That's all I got.

Anyway, I thought I would drop by and say something because I noticed you, like me, hadn't gotten any replies yet and seem to have some serious issues relating to other people in a positive way.

I hope you work through whatever you're experiencing, feel free to message me if you need someone to listen.

to be a good listener, you need to listen patiently, with genuine interest in hearing the person speak.

Well I try to avoid people all together because the overwhelming need to scream at them some times just comes out.

I have noticed that some people turn to working with animals to avoid the human contact and it seems to work.

I find when I am down and miserable and all that, that being kind to a stranger helps me. Because I know how that feels when a stranger is kind to me for no reason at all.

I am also in a bad relationship. A Marriage. It is really hard to ignore a person who is supposed to be your all when they just hate you and put you down and make you miserable because of their own short comings.