Are you bitter?

I feel like I may be.

It didn’t cross my mind until recently, when I started really listening to myself when talking to people.

Normally I’m a quiet person who spends a lot of time in their own head—it’s usually just me and my thoughts—so I think I’ve grown accustomed to my own negative mindset.

But when I interact with someone I start to wonder, do I sound too negative? Do I seem bitter?

I think about the way my life has gone and the things that have happened and I have good reasons for feeling that way.

But still. Nobody wants to be bitter.

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You don’t seem bitter at all. And I know I’m not too bitter :rofl:

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I don’t think I’m bitter. I try to make the best of a difficult situation. Hard as it may be.

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Im bitten not bitter

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I think I can be bitter and definitely was before my first episode.

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Thanks! I think I am somewhat and try to mask it because it’s not an appealing personality trait.

You do a good job masking it then :sunglasses:

Which could be a good or a bad thing

But you totally don’t come off as bitter!

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I’m Bitter Pan.
:crazy_face:

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I think I’m on a current trajectory toward becoming a bitter man… I’d throw old man into that but that’s dreaming I’ll make it so far…that far… lol.

I think I’m critical and a middle class white male; it’s not an attractive ‘ball of wax’. I must do better, change course, because like you said: [you], nor I, want to be like that.

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I used to be really bitter on the inside, but never let it show on the outside.

Now with time the bitterness seems to have lost it’s edge.

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My mom once said that people in their 60’s become ‘less competitive’.

It reminds me of a lyric from the ‘Sunscreen’ song that came out the year I graduated: i.e.:

‘The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.’

The ramifications of this talk make me hopeful that I haven’t lost my friends forever… they may revisit the topic of me. This is meant to bring hopefulness to you too, @everhopeful !!

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old poem fragment - and if my strength is measured against this wind I’ve grown bitter though strong

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I am angry that I have a sister who is so much more beautiful than me.

physically. whilst i am ugly, I don’t care if someone tells me i look pretty cos i know if i had a bf he would think i am ugly.

it upsets me, a lot.

i think it is what makes me most upset in life.

fear of losing a partner to my sister.

I am bitter that i am ugly, apparently…,

but i try to work with it.

somehow :thinking:

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life is unfair,…,

plus i have this disease which means i can’t just go for any guy i want cos i might relapse

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Don’t be so hard on yourself. You are far from ugly. :owl::owl::owl:

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apparently i am, compared to my sister.

it really affects my confidence

i wish i was beautiful from head to toe…,

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That’s how I feel sometimes.

Although I wish it could have happened another way.

I guess it gave me a little extra grit though.

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I’m not bitter.

I’ve always believed that the world owes me nothing. Lou Gehrig, the great NY Yankee player, shortly after being diagnosed with what we now call ALS, said: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” John McCain, WWII war hero and POW for 5 and a half years (who could have been released after 1 year but decided to continue being tortured on a daily basis because all of his fellow POWs were not also allowed release), said days before he died of brain cancer: “I have not been cheated.”

Schizophrenia has put me through hell, but I say I’ve had a wonderful life. No, I’m not bitter.

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I am pretty bitter, but I don’t let it show very often. My bitterness fuels me, oddly enough, lol.

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I’m generally of good cheer unless someone mentions in-laws or immediate family. In my defence, I’ve always believed that one should speak out against true evil.

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