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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you cry about other people's pain or your own pain and trials?  Or do you never cry at all?  I find I never cry about my own life (which, by all comparative accounts, is not that good).  But I never cry over it.  I find myself crying about other people's problems/pain.  Like the children in Gaza or Syria... or just now, I was watching the Roosevelt documentary and I found myself crying about all the hell that WWII entailed for millions of people. [b]It felt good to cry. [b]But I'm not in touch with my own pain.  Maybe I use other people's pain as a cipher for my own[/b].[/b]

What about you?  [/quote]

In my experience many people do this. It feels too overwhelming sometimes to cry for oneself. At lot of us instictively fear we'll fall apart emotionally if we "go there", so we defensively distance from our own pain and displace the emotions onto other people's suffering. It's well known that a lot of people in the "helping professions" (e.g., nurses, doctors, social workers, psychiatrists) do this.[/quote]

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