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5-25-2009 10:44 AM
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Kelika says:
More: "Embittered people are typically good people who have worked hard at something important, such as a job, relationship or activity, Linden says. When something unexpectedly awful happens -- they don't get the promotion, their spouse files for divorce or they fail to make the Olympic team -- a profound sense of injustice overtakes them. Instead of dealing with the loss with the help of family and friends, they cannot let go of the feeling of being victimized. Almost immediately after the traumatic event, they become angry, pessimistic, aggressive, hopeless haters.
Linden suggests that people once known as loving, normal individuals who suddenly snap and kill their family and themselves may have post-traumatic embitterment syndrome. That's reason enough for researchers to study how to treat the destructive emotion of bitterness."
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5-25-2009 1:59 PM
tanyamm
This sounds like my mom and my daughters fiance
5-26-2009 8:01 AM
debbyski
POP.
5-26-2009 10:17 PM
chestnut501
Linden suggests that people once known as loving, normal individuals who suddenly snap and kill their family and themselves may have post-traumatic embitterment syndrome.
5-26-2009 10:43 PM
chestnut501
(Skip the above quote.)

Bitterness is not a mental illness because mental illness is physical. Bitterness is a state of mind. At worse, bitterness may be a disorder.

The difference between a disorder and a mental illness is profound.

5-26-2009 11:10 PM
chestnut501
(SKIP THE ABOVE COMMENT)

Now this is exactly why if one suffers from a mental illness or a disorder, they should always remember to take their medication. As I've been told many times, "if you can't take it for yourself.......

Choose One:
a) Take it for the people who love you
b) Take it for the people who you love
c) Take it for the neighbors

5-27-2009 1:14 AM
chestnut501
Well, I took my meds. I'm back but can't think of a thing to say except.....

I'm glad this clip isn't " all about me" and....

You two make a really cute couple.
5-27-2009 5:10 AM
chestnut501
OMG, I just can't stay away

Perhaps this isn't bitterness at all. Perhaps it's being defensive, reflexsive defensiveness. Like when someone ends up geting smacked upside the head every single time a certain person walks in a room. Eventually that person will begin to raise their arm in a defensive position as soon as they see that person coming through the door. It's natural. And the person who was smacking them shouldn't expect that to change overnight. This shouldn't be confused with bitterness. To call it something other than what it is, to not take responsibility for it, makes that person helpless. Taking responsibility for ones actions gives a person the power they need to change
5-27-2009 10:16 PM
iamonetoo
H-mmm.... it seems to me that when you comment
on a clip 5 consecutive times that is making it about you.
5-28-2009 12:37 AM
chestnut501
Don't fuck with me. I'm not that kind of a person. Other people only talk about transparency, I'm the real thing. I don't like playing games but if the only way to negotiate a situation is to play someones game with them, I'll consider it. First of all, I want to know the rules, no bullshit making them up as we go along to benefit yourself. We play fair or we don't play at all.

Now you tell me, iamonetoo. Do you want to be real or are you going to hide behind that ridiculous fake name of yours and play musical accounts?

5-28-2009 1:21 AM
chestnut501
IAMONETOO, Wouldn't you like to know for the first time what living a real life is all about, before time runs out. Instead of getting up in the morning wondering what other peoples expectations of you are going to be and if you can please them without totally compromising your soul? Imagine what the day could be like if you knew that no matter what you did that day, the same people would love you just as much that night as they did that morning? That no matter what you did, they wouldn't cry and scream or yell or beg. Or that someone would be there just for you and that wouldn't mean enabling you to play games but rather enabling you so you wouldn't have to play games any longer. So you co...
5-28-2009 3:20 PM
debbyski
Dear Fellow Clippers,

I have chosen to be honest in my approach to CM and that is basically selfish in nature. First of all, it is a catharsis for me, but it does have the downside of revealing a lot of personal information about myself in comments and sometimes others have used that information to be critical, but I can take it. Someday, I hope my future grandchildren will be able to read my comments and see that I was real live person with feelings and I hope they can know me through my comments.

As I have stated before, cabanaben is my husband of almost 32 years and my youngest daughter also has a CM account (although she is no longer active). We share a computer.
Although I woul...
5-28-2009 3:28 PM
debbyski
I feel like I am the best judge of what I must sacrifice for my peace of mind and working on life-altering questions deserve all the time it takes to be comfortable with my answers.
As much as I'd like to know the end of my story, I feel I'll benefit most by patiently waiting for it to unfold.

This I do know right now.

I know myself better and feel more alive than I ever have.
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