Posted by likelife on February 3, 2003, at 23:29:51
In reply to How much do your moods define you?, posted by Dinah on February 3, 2003, at 21:39:52
This makes perfect sense to me. In my case, for a long time, I saw it as, "I'm Natalie and I'm depressed." I WAS my depression. It still happens occasionally now with the moods, where it's a matter of almost feeling controlled by my moods, rather than the other way around. When your personality seems to be so dependent on day-to-day fluctuations in feeling states, it can be hard to have a concrete idea of "this is who I am" (not only today, but also yesterday and tomorrow too).
It may seem as if your outside opinions and responses are unchanging, and even as you say, predictable. But I've found that I am the last one to figure out how predictable I am in certain aspects (I get repeatedly angry at the same situations, hurt, happy, and so on). So other people see me as being generally the same (still not sure if this is a good or a bad thing), whereas I am reluctant to believe that certain aspects of my personality are really that fixed.
Yikes, reading over this again has made it make less sense to me, but I figure I'll post it anyway...
P.S. I've been wandering around this board for a long time. I think I'm finally getting to the point where I feel like I have something to say.
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