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writes:I tend to hide my emotions. I only want people to see the happy excited hyper energetic side of me. I hide my emotions becuase it seem like when I'm happy I make others happy. I hate to let people down so I try to be happy for the sake of ther people as much a possible. The other day I laughed so hard I cried for the first time. Catching myself off guard the tears of joy turned into real tears and I couldn't hold back the deep need to cry and let everything out. The embarrassing part was that I was in class with all my friends and I couldn't control my sobs.The intense need to just cry was overwhelming. I felt horrible and guilty but I couldn't figure out why. Do you think these tears happened because I bottled my emotions for too long? Is this normal? I'm some what worried. Reply to this Question
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reader, CindyCares  +, writes (24 May 2012):
 Yeah, but, are you sure that people WANT to see only the happy excited hyper energetic side of you ? all the time ?
You give your age as 22-25, if you were 13 maybe the main reaction would be " How cute , always so bubbly and hyper " but in your age bracket, let me tell you, all this ( fake ! ) happiness and hyperactivity is mostly annoying . You may be doing efforts for something that people are NOT grateful to you for..
Regardless, yes, it's quite possible that you have been bottling your emotions for so long, that at the end, the "pressure " made the cork pop , you felt overwhelmed and and had a melt down.
The cure ? very simple. Be yourself, not the school clown.
Allow yourself to be occasionally serious or pensive or sad or even grumpy. People who care about you won't mind you being just HUMAN, and having a range of different emotions. People who only bother with you because they like to laugh... I don't know, suggest them a good comedy club.
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