Who here is talkative and who's quiet?

DX'd - Other
1

I am a rather quiet person,would love to be able to say more though,what about you?Are you talkative or quiet?

1 Like
2

I’m quite talkative when around someone who I feel comfortable with, but I won’t say a word when around someone I feel uncomfortable with.

3 Likes
3

But well, I don’t feel comfortable with most ppl, so I’m quiet most of the time…

1 Like
4

I’m more quiet. I used to talk all the time before I got ill. Too much talking. Now I don’t feel like talking anymore. I listen more than talk. It’s like I’ve lost the ability to be social. I used to be very social and talk to just about anyone.

2 Likes
5

i’m quiet unless I am at work-- then I have to be talkative.

2 Likes
6

I’m talkative to family and friends but not to others

2 Likes
7

I am a quiet guy in real life and here.

1 Like
8

People used to think I was too quiet until I became manic for a few months. Now they are happy that I mainly shut up.

2 Likes
9

I can be quite talkative with people I feel at ease with, otherwise I tend to be quiet.

2 Likes
10

I’m kind of the same way. I’m quiet until I become manic and high spirited. People don’t like it. At first I thought, “Who are they to tell me how to act?” , but people dislike it without exception, so maybe I should listen.

2 Likes
11

I don’t speak unless spoken to around the general public, but I do talk to my sister and day treatment staff.

1 Like
12

I am quite talkative when I am Hypomanic or Manic - otherwise I am not a big talker, especially around strangers

1 Like
13

I’m having a challenge now, meeting new class mates and forming little groups and all of that stuff that normally happens in school. So I’m being more talkative than usual, I’m taking it as a sign of less depression.

3 Likes
14

Congratulation,: )

1 Like
15

Thank you :smile:

16

I tend to be talkative, especially with people I know. I’m very extroverted.

Sometimes I don’t have much to say, however. Other times, I have too much to say. Then sometimes I have lots to say but I just say that things are going well.

For example, if an acquaintance asks me how I am while I am walking on my way to do something else I will say “not bad.” If a friend or family member asks me how things are while we are spending time together at say a family dinner I will say much more than just “doing well.”

I mean some people want to hear details and some just want to say hi. It’s tacit, which means understood but not written anywhere that when you just stop by someone it’s “yeah these days I am doing well and I am doing this and that” and then for closer people it’s appropriate to relax and tell them exactly what you are doing and how things are going. I might tell someone that I am doing something like applying to graduate school and then just sort of leave it at that, others want to hear all about my research and which schools I am applying to and what else I have been doing–those people are closer friends, family, sometimes colleagues, particularly the ones I work with IF they start the conversation implying that they want to hear what is up.

It takes some time to get a feel for how much to say.

2 Likes
19

Im quiet…

1 Like
20

Im usually pretty quite unless the particular situation warrents a more learned point of view , like somebody telling a kid that something is right when I know its wrong ,I prolly would speak up .

21

I’m constantly told I’m a better talker than I think I am