Overly Sensetive And Emotional

[cinnamonfern]

When I come home from work, (I work from 1-9:30pm), I sometimes come home very stressed, thinking over the day and certain things people said and that. Like for instance sometimes my boss looks stressed and that, and I take it personally. I think, "well he didn't seem all that good in a mood today, did I have something to do with it?". I take things too personally, sometimes I can brush it off, but than when I come home, I get ready for my shower and I start to pick, it takes me forever to hop into the shower, and I think it partly has to do with coming home from work and me just over analyzing everything that happened at work. Don't get me wrong, I love my job and we have a lotta laughs there, but I went from being home all day and isolated from the world to working and having to deal with people, so I think I still am overly sensetive and tend to care too much what people think of me and can sometimes take things personally and sometimes assume I'm the one that people can't stand at the job. But than I think to myself, "How can I justify that, I never did anything to anyone, so realistically why would they have anything against me"? I guess I'm just a little paroniod at times and am overly sensetive, is this normal behavior amongst us pickers?

[lin]

Sometimes after a day that seems to me to have involved difficult or stressful interaction with others, i'll find myself unwinding, or rather sort of unplugging from my thoughts/feelings, by picking (my feet - i'm the one who does this to my feet, not face). Also, i would say i'm very sensitive to what i think others are thinking about me, how they feel about what i've done or said, etc. I don't know what's normal or not, but i can relate.

[anonymousartist]

I'm sure we all take it differently but one of the reasons I'm always afraid of getting a stressful job is that I might not be able to just leave it there. I don't want work to be my whole life (i'm unemployed at the moment, just graduated).

But maybe you need to find a good ritual to blow off some of the day when you get home. I mean maybe we all do. Maybe it's a half hour of angry music to blow of steam, or a half hour of calm music to relax, or maybe its a bit of meditation, or a cup of tea.

I'm sure we're all affected by the things that go on at work/school during the day and we all kinda need a way to separate. Picking can be one, but we can also find new rituals that won't injure us (of course it takes time to change these habits).