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Overreacting
Emotionally, I often overreact. I’ve known this for a long time. What I did not know was the ways in which this manifested. It’s one thing when I get angry at some stupid thing that doesn’t work correctly or as expected. I will vent about that at the time, but stop and move on. That’s the overreaction that I was aware of.
Recently, I had an incident where something didn’t go well and I got pretty upset and frustrated about it. Then, I overreacted to that overreaction. In other words, I got myself pretty upset about where I was, and then got frustrated with myself about that and wondered if I’m doing the right thing. A pretty good spiral, don’t you think? Once I later realized that the initial reaction was unwarranted, it was pretty easy to see what I had done as far as overreacting.
Now that I realize that I overreact in these situations, it will hopefully be easier for me to catch myself before I fall into that again.
Posted 2011 10 02 at 9:00 AM
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