I'm a sensitive person, probably in large part due to unresolved emotional trauma, but also on the other hand because I am very intuned to my emotions and that of others. I can FEEL when other people are upset, and sometimes when I try to bring it up, it rubs up against another person's emotional wound and they lash out. As this is exactly what was done in my family of origin to wound me in the first place, (I bring up the abuse and get attacked for it) there's this riccochet effect, where now I am hurt as well.
The hardest lesson I've had to learn is how to then heal myself and not lash out at the other person. I've got a belly full of humble pie.
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