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Have you ever thought about deleting your account? (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

I have this trait irl. It's good to know about it and even better to try to regulate it, because it makes life seem so much worse than it really is. I can see there are people who don't have it this way and who just forget all the bad stuff almost immediately - must be nice.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm just asking out of curiosity: why do you think you care so much about the negative comments?

    I am one of those people that shrug it off, and if I were to try to rationalize my emotional armor, I'd say that the places these matters of taste and disagreement come from, like psychologically, are often not you're own fault and wouldn't really be fixable even if you tried.

    But, I wonder if that might be missing the mark. The futility of trying to appease people who are unappeasable might actually have nothing to do with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not just comments, negative things in general. I think in my case it's connected to a hereditary predisposition to depression and anxiety. The bad stuff makes a large impact and the good stuf just doesn't seem to produce any neural pathways. It's physiological. Some of my family got much better with modern antidepresants. I went a different way and I'm ok now as well, it took decades though.

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