Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 656 Location: Bedfordshire, East of England
06 Feb 2006, 1:18 pm
get depressed, cry, and have a good moan to anyone who'll listen. Then listen to music, sleep, and stop thinking about it wherever possible (I suppose that's possibly a form of denial.)
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 13,157 Location: Omnipresent
12 Feb 2006, 4:06 pm
I think that I tend towards arrogance. This is because I have always been a loner and my self-esteem has been badly damaged in the past. Arrogance is in its own way a rationalization though. I rationalize my problems by declaring myself too good for these problems and making these problems a creation of the world rather than of myself. Certainly at some level I realize the untrue nature of my assertions and I most certainly realize that there are many people who are more capable than myself and such however, I sort of use my arrogance as a psychological tool to get motivation in terms of working hard and to protect myself from the problems that I will face in the future by claiming to have confidence and ability.