Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Do you get emotionally invested easily?

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I wear my heart on my sleeve :D

Comments

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Too much.

[spikespetslayer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and while that's a good thing if you're an optimist, it's a bad thing if you're a nurse. I have a hard time with it sometimes.

*and if you believe that way, it comes from Sun and Venus in Pisces with a Moon in Cancer--WTF, were they setting me up to be the ultimate Emo? LOL*

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you. I'm an aspiring nursing student (currently in phlebotomy training), and our instructor told us all about professional detachment. I used to work at a nursing home and got emotionally attached so much, it was tough every time when one of my little old people died :(

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. My life is a roller coaster.

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I'm an admitted eccentric and I don't like people generally. But the few people I have in my circle get everything, no holds barred. Give me a friend or a child or something I can connect with (including books, films and music) and I get emotionally invested straight away.

It made working with kids very fulfilling, but emotionally exhausting. But then, I often think that's why I did it.

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

I have many walls (some say too many). Once I let someone in, and give them my trust, THEN I get emotionally invested. Then I usually get scared and put walls up again.

I can be a very confusing person to be involved with at times.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yes but not as easily as I did when I was younger.

[kithan.livejournal.com]

More easily than I'd like to admit sometimes.

[editgrrl.livejournal.com]

Nope. Which is why when I do, it's scary as heck and then you get rambling posts from me like yesterday. lol

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

no.

[erva-doce.livejournal.com]

as i get older, no. but i'm sure people (and myself, really) would say that i still get emotionally invested easily. just less and less as i get older. not sure why that is.

[1jodie.livejournal.com]

yes. and it makes it harder to get things go...

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

I try really hard not to - it's safer if you don't.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Nope. It takes quite a lot for me to get emotionally invested. I've got so much going on in my life that to take the time and effort to get emotionally invested in something means I have to take that energy away from what's already happening. I can be engaged with the brain, but my emotions will stay out of it.

[donor4him.livejournal.com]

It's a weakness I have... :o/

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I'm an artist.

[fire-fox01.livejournal.com]

It depends on the situation but usually I do get emotionally invested easily but it is just as easy for me to pull back out of it. I make no sense.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

No. I get intellectually invested easily. Emotions come much, much later.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Yea, but I shut it off easily too, much of the time anyway.

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

That is one thing I love about me, and sure your quite the same. On again, off again. No one really knows just how deep they are cutting or if they are even getting through.

I need to add you Babe, we seem to mirror each other from time to time.

[pasticcio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do.

[billzy.livejournal.com]

OMG YES....

And i hate it.

[nancymccoydfw.livejournal.com]

I also wear my heart on my sleeve.

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

Through the benefit of experience... no.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Have you read my LJ and watched me interact w/ my f-list?

Do you even have to ask?

[innerly.livejournal.com]

TOO easily.. but you already knew that
luckily, i hardly ever regret it

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

I used to. I guess I still kind of do. It depends on the emotion. Yeah, I love a lot of people. I love you along with all of my close friends. I consider you guys my close friends. So a lot of what you guys do can affect me a lot of different ways.

But that deep seated love...the strong, entire soul, earth moving love, I have reserved that for only a few.

[patchworld.livejournal.com]

sometimes.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

No, but when I do, I'm very emotionally committed and can get myself hurt pretty easily.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I have before, but I don't anymore. That part of me has been taken advantage of, so now I wait awhile before I do. I know it makes me seem kind of stand offish, but I'm just protecting myself...

[l-nephthys-l.livejournal.com]

I used to, to the extreme. now I am trying to teach myself not to so quickly.

[nowsheshines.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Sometimes too much.

[gillian16.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. I'm an emotional cannon.

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

Yes. And so do my brothers. FOr some reason we love REALLY deeply/passionately/strongly very very quickly (i've had discussions about the phenomena with my mom and neither one of us knows why we're like that). This is true for friendships AND romantic relationships. ... . . . .

*sigh* I hate it when relationships end though. It hurts to let go, but sometimes it's needed. :-/

*hugs*

[4kudzu.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Sometimes it comes back to bite one in the arse though...

[amnotcute.livejournal.com]

Far more than is probably good for me.

[dymondropz.livejournal.com]

yup.. in one of her songs one my favorite rapers, Jean Grae says:
"I'm overly sensitive when it comes to,eh, just about everything". i intentionally (which sometimes can be a bad thing in my friendships, considering friends like family. i'll go above and beyond and then some. sometimes to my own detriment, until i realize it. Good question

[babystar620.livejournal.com]

all too often.

[beloved-juno.livejournal.com]

I'm backward when it comes to emotional investment, as I am when it comes to many things. I initially invest very easily, and far too deeply. Then when I am inevitably made sorry for that, I pull away drastically and really never effectively re-invest.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on the situation. While I can really let loose emotionally with family and friends, in my future career I have to emotionally distance myself from many things.

[rowanchey.livejournal.com]

Usually in those things which are certain to disappoint me.