A|B|C|D or ABDCDBADACB?

Started by Shining Raichu July 24th, 2012 6:20 PM
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Shining Raichu

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Yeah it's a weird thread title but it may make sense once you read the question lol.

How good are you at compartmentalising? Can you go into different modes for the different aspects of your life and not have the others affect you, or do they all bleed into each other?

That sounds convoluted I think, so I'll give an example to clarify: say you've had a terrible day at work and then come home to your family. Can you leave your terrible day at work and switch into happy home mode, or do you bring your bad mood home with you?
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I'm pretty good at switching over. Most of the time people can't even tell if I've had a bad (or good haha) day; I'm just too neutral personality-wise. It's something I'm thankful for I guess, since coming home in a bad mood will bring everyone else down as well. >:
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As much as I'd like to say that I can switch, I really can not. Sometimes I get to be terribly moody, and I find it difficult to not stay moody, even if I'm around people who are completely unrelated to whatever incident I've gotten myself into. When I'm upset I tend to stay upset, and though I hate to say it, I sometimes upset the people around me.

I can switch over from ridiculousness to seriousness quite easily though. Then again, I act differently around different people, so I guess I'm used to subconsciously shifting my behavior around. Just not when I'm throwing a fit. xD

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For the most part I can switch, although sometimes I can't switch out of my bad mood. It depends on how depressing it actually is. I can switch from fun to serious pretty easily though, given the right senario.
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It varies, actually. Depends on what caused the mood shift. If it's something generic, it'll probably bleed into the rest of my day. But if it's personal, I'll bury it deep down and put up a cheerful front. It's something I'm good at.
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I'm more of an Abacab guy. Not funny? Ah.

I can usually keep a bad day from influencing everything else, but that's mostly because I tend to not like showing that I'm upset or frustrated unless it's really bad. In the past when I've let a bad day effect how I treat others, it's always made me feel awful afterwards.
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I think that I'm more of an A|B|C|D kind of person. I think that I keep parts of my life very separate, and that's best because I get pretty upset about things at times. If I'm in a bad mood about something, I'll probably hide it. I guess that's just how I am.
I feel like maybe the only exception to this is when I really want to talk about something because I tend to keep to myself. If I am trying to talk about something to someone, then they'll know that it's something that's bothering me and that it is really something that is a problem that carries over, because I don't want to give other people things to worry about that are my concern, I feel like. I think it just works better that way.

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I had to be good at it in college because of the different groups I ran with. I didn't want to give the guys from anime club a bad impression of me just because I had a clash with the morons in the financial aid department or that one idiot professor earlier in the day, for example. And if something that transpired in anime club got me riled, well, try explaining that to the guys from church who don't know anime outside of Saturday morning shows. I was able to turn those switches on and off pretty well when out in public, saving my reactions to things for when I was in the privacy of my room.

I've kinda actually gotten worse at it since leaving college, because when I have a bad day now, everyone I run into will know, from family to random people I encounter in the store if I go shopping that day.

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Ummm no, I tend to make it obvious when I'm pissed off about things and everyone tends to find out eventually lmao. It's especially bad at certain times then I become mean and nobody would want to talk to me. :( But otherwise I just get sad - though getting happy isn't an issue, it can usually happen in a few hours!

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Oh, dear. This has always been an issue for me. I usually try to segregate what happens at school or with friends from my family, because what happened elsewhere did not happen at home and is 99% of the time not an influential factor in what happened, so why should I bring that negative attitude into the home environment? It's still difficult, though, because sometimes it shows, and miscommunication is an issue... yeah. :x
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It's pretty easy to segregate different aspects of my life, except for things like fatigue or something. I don't do it consciously – being around different people affects how I act, so usually I bring a new face to a new situation.

Shining Raichu

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The way I see it, I have four different components to my life.

A - Home
B - Work
C - Friends
D - Internet

I am great at compartmentalising when I need to, but I'm naturally better at it in some sectors of my life than others. For instance, none of the areas affect A or B, yet while D doesn't affect any of the other areas, all of them can affect it.
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