[unico]

After I started first grade I started crying hysterically every day. I was supposed to go to a "special school" after Kindergarten (due to my delays from autism), but my mother didn't like the teacher so I just went on to "regular" first grade. School was always a nightmare for me. I take criticism hard and hate if I seem rude or unkind to people. I also was bullied a lot, but oddly that didn't upset me too much, over all. But I still get really upset with myself if I've made someone feel bad and I felt really bad last night because I'd had a huge panic attack with severe heart palpitations (and my resting pulse rate is high to begin with).

I tried calling my doctor and she said to call my psychiatrist and say it was an emergency. I did so, leaving a message in the office, and I never got a call back. My psychiatrist is a *very* busy man and does get back whenever he can, but I felt really distressed and unloved. I know it sounds stupid to expect a psychiatrist to love you, but I really adore him. I can't get ahold of him until late Monday night at the earliest. I hope my heart palpitations stay under control until then. But I was super, super hurt and crying a lot when he didn't call me back because I felt he didn't care about me.

Do any other 4's have this problem of getting their feelings hurt easily?

 

[Coburn]

(Not a four)

No. I've got fairly thick skin about most things.

 

[comeasyouare]

I'm not sure if i'm a type 4. I'm between 1, 4 or 5.
But I know I'm an INFP and yes, you can hurt my feelings quite easily. People generally do it without bad intentions though... I guess.

 

[ImminentThunder]

Yes, I get my feelings hurt very easily. Over everything. Even the smallest things. Even when the person probably wasn't even trying to offend me in the first place.

I would cry at school...a lot. Especially in middle school, because I was bullied rather often due to being shy and having poor social skills.

 

[silverlined]

Though I don't tend to show it much or talk about, most of it comes from being self critical though and taking someone's actions as a reflection of me.

 

[MilkyLatte]

Sometimes I get hurt when people don't respond to my text messages. Even though I know that they're probably doing something else, I start building up stories in my mind about how they must have suddenly started hating me. I stretch it so far that I start hating them for giving me the silent treatment instead of just telling me that they don't like me and I even sorta prepare myself for a bitter argument. Then they write back and everything is forgotten.

I used to be a lot worse though.. Back in the days I would keep texting people when they didn't answer and try to call them and I would make my text messages increasingly "mean" in the sense that I would guilt trip them into feeling bad about ignoring me. Needless to say, I wasn't very popular back then.

 

[kaleidoscope]

Yes, I do. It's more often than not about my analysis of the behavior and how I interpret it, rather than the behavior itself. I have this terrible habit of NOT taking things at face value, and instead looking for what that behavior says about the person. Say someone forgot to write to me ? I take it as a sign that they don't really care, and that hurts me. I'm trying to tone that down, but there was a time where I didn't do this and idealized the person instead - and I ended up heartbroken. So now I do the complete opposite.

 

[unico]

I'm very sorry you were bullied, @ImminentThunder!

 

[basementbugs]

Yes, incredibly easily. I often feel like everything in the world is hurting me in some way or another, if that doesn't sound too weird. Being alive hurts.

Like kaleidoscope said, it's more often about my own perception.

 

[Steel Magnolia]

Not a four, but I can be very four-ish at times.

Yes, I do get easily hurt. If someone gets mad at me, depending on how difficult things have been for me lately, then I just shut down if insulted. I was also abused. I think my father was a very unhealthy type 1.

 

[derlierina]

Way too easily. Even if something wasn't supossed to be an insult, I feel hurt and I hate it!

 

[derlierina]

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