What Is Wrong With Me, I’m Irritated And Annoyed With Everyone
I’m a senior in high school. Freshman year, I was very active, had a lot of energy, lots of friends, and was always happy. This is a huge contrast to how I am these days. Now, I am never happy.
I am content to be alone. I am happy by myself and when anyone talks to me, I am immediately irritated and annoyed. This is with everyone- my mom, my friends, everyone. It happens even with a little question.
I am also always tired. I get home from school and just want to sleep for the rest of the day, but I can’t because I have a job(that I don’t like because I find it annoying as well). Everything in my life overwhelms me and I feel like I never have the time I need. I’m also very emotional during TV shows and movies, but I don’t show my feelings or talk about them to anyone.
I cry at least once a day to myself because I am so stressed out by everything and everyone. I want to change but I can’t. This isn’t the way people are supposed to feel on a daily basis. Life seems more like a job than fun to me. I hate the fact that I’m so mean to the people that I’m supposed to love and be close with. I want energy again. What’s wrong with me?
Hello Erin, and thanks for telling your story here. I’m not going to talk about what’s wrong with you, because I feel certain that your feelings and reactions are there for a very good reason. You need to find out what those reasons are, and following my recommendations, you will start to feel better. And you will be better able to act like the good person you truly are.
What Is Wrong With Me, I’m Irritated And Annoyed With Everyone
Start with the exercises on this FAQ page. Take them seriously, and do them all as directed, and you will get some good results.
Your emotions are surfacing as a part of your healing process. You have apparently been wounded in the past, and if you don’t work on those old wounds, they will work on you–all as a part of your brilliant mind’s effort to heal your body, mind and emotions.
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Comments for What Is Wrong With Me, I’m Irritated And Annoyed With Everyone
This quote by the questioner, Erin, is the source of the problem. There is no “supposed to feel”. There is only the truth of how you feel.
I suggest, “I feel this way. I embrace this. I explore it. And I am ready to start the journey to feel something different. I seek this.”
Own and allow your internal experience. It is annoying to be around others if you are gauging your internal experience on your perception of that which is external to you. Aka, these people. And moreover, some of those people may actually be annoying! So don’t put it all on yourself.
Even when you feel happy and balanced, people still can “annoy” you. The difference is, it doesn’t trigger you, collapse you, or put you into a “state”. It only serves to make you take action. For instance, you will say, I need to excuse 
myself and walk away from this person. No drama. You just act for the good of yourself.