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I (21M) have survived two decades of severe physical, emotional, and financial abuse from my Indian parents. I'm finally exhausted and need to tell my story. I am not free yet. — # TL;DR: I'm a 20-year-old only child in India who has endured severe physical, verbal, emotional, and financial abuse from my parents since toddlerhood. They have beaten me, medically neglected me, …
I think there is such a thing as too sensitive — In trying to heal from my break up I have been reading a lot and watching a lot of videos and I have seen a lot of advice about validating your partners feelings and not saying they're being too se…
dad said the worst thing ever to me. — *“I did choose to have a child, but not you in particular. You're just the sperm that won the race. However, I did choose mother in particular, and I will defend her against anyone, my family, strange…
am i a monster — sorry, idk if this is even the right subreddit for this, and i’m super new to reddit to begin with, so i’m honestly just trying to get stuff off my chest. for context, i’m 16F, an only child with REAL…
Living with all the things he can’t remember — I saw a post about a guy getting kicked out of a comedy show for making sexist/homophobic comments and his date leaving with him. And all I could think was: Oh shit. I used to be that date. We (30F…
My Mom Kept Killing Our Pets — I always thought that animals had very short life spans. Through my childhood, we had adopted and buried at least 7 cats, 5 dogs, 2 rabbits, and 3 hamsters , not to mention a myriad of wild animals li…
Need Help Sharing my Story — Hello. I am going to be sharing my story to other athletes at my colleges club for mental health in athletes. I have been asked to speak about my experience having been in an abusive relationship, and…
I want to learn how to cope and accept everything in order to be functional — I know I'm catastrophizing. I know I'm so young (17) and I know I have so much ahead of me but at the same time these feelings are all I am right now and they consume me sometimes. It gets so bad some…
1 Year NC -Still Confused — I still feel extremely confused and like I haven’t really made any progress in understanding or healing etc. I still feel personally guilty a lot of the time. I’m still very confused about if my mum…
His hearing was too sensitive.
I am currently going through a break up and we are still living together while this is happening and we sort things out, split up things etc. I am not coping too well with that situation. To make it w…
"You're too sensitive." "It's just happened." "I don't remember." "It's was basically just interactive porn." "If you had just (insert bullshit blame shifting here)..."
They insult you and when you object they say you are too sensitive.
I would hope your counsellor would be able to guide you if you felt able to show what you have written in this post but it would depend on how well they are informed on narcissism and trauma. Your m…
Do we have the same dad?? I literally get told that the reason I get made fun of all the time is bc of my reaction. But like why would you expect a child to take being the butt of jokes all the time i…
Trigger warning, violence. I was emotionally abused by an older brother. When we moved away from the family and got on with our lives, I assumed that he had reformed, chalking it up to being a childh…
I think non-traumatized people are often too tolerant of assholish behaviour. They'll say things like: * "Don't let him/her get to you." * "You need to grow thicker skin." * "You're too sensitive." *…
Yup. My dad can hardly stand being wrong. As a kid I just thought he was really smart and knew everything. Granted he is intelligent and all but he just wants to be right. Once he argued with my…
My mother starts a lot of sentences with “I have something to tell you, but it will make you mad.” Like at least twice a day she says this. It feels the same as when she says I’m too sensitive. Or wh…
Yall too way too sensitive. Bringing a bad name on Asians imo
I also grew up being told I was too sensitive, that I needed to grow thicker skin. I've also had that thought process, that maybe I'm just too sensitive and my parents didn't actually do anything wr…
My mom has called us evil and selfish before over little things. they also call us liars cause we lied to them about stuff before and they found out. my parents say my sister manipulates me and contro…
Whenever I hear people (particularly my dad and his wife) validate my sisters' trauma it makes me SO upset. They've spent my entire life telling me that my trauma was made up and I'm just too sensit…
You both are fine, it is just the fact, you are pregnant and then too sensitive. Best wishes for the delivery.
You’re welcome! Thank you for reading! I’m glad to hear that your words aren’t as harmful as his. It actually sounds like you communicated your worries pretty well. I think it’s valid that you’re fee…
Speaking as someone whose partner smoked behind my back and deliberately hid it from me for over a year, don’t do it anymore. It breaks the trust and it’s hard to build that back. My partner would use…
I remember being upset about something that happened at school, going to my mother in tears and having her lay down on the couch, telling me to "Leave me alone, I'm resting." I was *too sensitive.* …
Also something that struck me was you seem like an incredibly perceptive and kind person. You care deeply about how your energy and actions affect others based on how much you care about how you affec…
He did this because he wants to lord over you about something. Anything, even trivial matters. He wants you to feel corrected by him so he can feel a sense of superiority over you. And he's smiling …
Yep. My nmom would ruin any friendship I had or badmouth the friend relentlessly. When I got bullied, I was being too sensitive. Anything that needed medical attention was nothing. When I was 13 I got…
My AP did when I was a child, and then criticize me for being too sensitive. Like I was supposed to have a tough skin and sit through being lashed out at and insulted for up to 2 hours . It is a bit t…
Its the ultimate DARVO. They called us too sensitive. LOL
“Spoiled rotten kids.” Anytime we put up any resistance to her commands. “You’re too sensitive. My mom did the same to me and I didn’t cry.” When she said something awful to me and I started sobbing…
I've gotten the "too sensitive" line way too many times. You know what, I don't care that I'm too sensitive. It just means when I have sex it's going to be *way* better for me than the non-sensitive f…