I’ve always been hypersensitive and I tend to overreact a lot. My whole life, people have always invalidated my feelings like saying I’m thinking about it too much, or that I’m overreacting and that my issues aren’t real. 

I have realized that the way I think is just not like other people. And that I am kind of delusional, in a way, because I’ll perceive things differently from people and take situations way too personally. 

But recently, my family’s house got robbed and it was a traumatic event for me. Me and my family have always been weak people, and the robbery occurred when one of my parents were home. Of course I freaked out. I could not stop obsessing over it and talking about it, and telling all my neighbors. (Showing them camera footage and etc) 

I was upset because my boyfriend, who’s always been strong his whole life, just doesn’t get what it’s like to be an easy target and a victim of crime. He’s strong and street smart, so of course criminals and everyday people aren’t going to fucking pick on him. 

My boyfriend told me to just be street smart and to be aware of my surroundings. And that these events are not preventable, so that I should just stop stressing about it. That’s easy for him to say, cuz he’s a strong ass person that criminals aren’t going to fuck with him because he’s a higher risk than some weak ass targets like me and my family. He told me that he saw the people who broke into my family’s house a couple weeks ago, because they followed him in an attempt to steal his wallet, but he stared them down until they drove away. My boyfriend isn’t scared of crime because he’s not physically vulnerable like I am. Of course I freaked the fuck out and I am adamant about trying to find the criminals and get them locked up. My boyfriend doesn’t understand my concerns and thinks I just need some street smarts. But that’s not enough.. he said it’s annoying how I won’t stop obsessing over what happened, and that I am acting frantic. He even said I’m delusional because I overreact, which is an abnormal reaction to reality. He’s annoyed because I can’t access situations in a realistic way, and because I always overblow events out of proportion.

Wow really, I fucking hate normal people. They just don’t get it. They’re always invalidating our stress and deep suffering. Anyways, I’m seeing a therapist soon who can hopefully help me.