Hurt

This is not really a fully formed post, so please forgive the stream of consciousness.....

I have always been very sensitive and easily upset. I am particularly easily hurt by people I love or respect.

This has been a lot worse over the past couple of years - with the whole bipolar thing.

There are those who say that no one can hurt your feelings, rather it is you choose to feel hurt.

That may be true.

But in my experience, I seem to be so easily cut down by the words or actions of others. It can take me days to recover from an off-the-cuff comment (one in which the person may not have even been aware that my feelings were hurt).

Which brings the dilemma. My doctor would say, it's best to pretend it's all OK and recover in isolation from that individual. But is that the biblical approach?