ACTING vs real life

[NotSure]

so im wondering about others' experinces with pretending to be 'fine' and the conflict with how you're really feeling.
life can be tiring, no?!

[Ichigo]

I pretend I'm fine every time I'm not.
My "friend" often says things that offends me or hurts me and every time I just try to act as if it didn't matter to me, even if I can't get it out of my head for days. I don't have any other friends in my class and because I'm scared of being on my own, I'm scared of losing her.
It's quite annoying. Sometimes I just feel like bitch-slapping her... :)

[NotSure]

sad to hear that, Ichigo.
im thinking of it in terms of employment and socialising at the mo: i am looking to increase my working hours to 40.5per week and am v v uncertain of all the extra 'people contact'. i tend to 'cope' so well during work or socialising, but then go home and implode: all behaviours seem to be exaggerated and my health suffers as a consequence.
a difficult gap to bridge.

[UsedRomance]

It was only really when I met my fiance that I learned it was ok to not feel fine all the time.

My whole life was an act before that.

Now it's like that episode in Friends with Bruce Willis crying- I cry all the time now, at the most ridiculous things.

[be_noticed]

my parents lost interest in me when i was 15-16...now i dont really bother showing emotions that much. i cant stand being around them anyway they dont really love each other. i wish they would divorce, that way i wont have to be a placed in a household filled with false emotion. and the worst thing is that none of my brothers and i know why they dispice eachother but i know they are only together for financial reasons. im 18 now...im sure they can wait to get rid of us.

[OzJenj]

I'm not big on talking about my problems and feelings and what not. Once in a blue moon I'll burst and unleash all my troubles on some poor unsuspecting victim, but besides that I keep quite and pretend everything's just wonderful. It doesn't bother me though, that's the way I like it.

[moon_light]

I tend to find that I pretend everything is fine, then finally start acting like everything isn't fine and become truly happy and carefree, and then think I'm carefree so when I finally become unhappy I don't notice until it's too late. Then the cycle repeats.

Anyone else get that?