When you are down & feeling low, your feelings can become extra sensitive. Your emotional senses are heightened & you can feel deeply hurt by what others may view as something very trivial. A single comment that may not have bothered you before may now feel like a huge personal attack. There are some horrid, insensitive people out there who can be downright nasty, but even the 'good' people can hurt your feelings without them even realising it.
I'm an empath & very sensitive by nature, so often struggle with feelings of hurt, but I've also got a warped, possibly weird sense of humour (broken people often do), so, occasionally, I can laugh at the sheer audacity & insensitivity of others. Bullying though, is something totally different; the sad fact is that the cowardly bullies that are out there, tend to seek out the weak & sensitive; kicking them down in order to boost their own pathetic ego's. Doubt they care, but the emotional damage they can cause is devastating & difficult to overcome.
I don't need anyone else to kick me when I'm down because I am my own worst enermy, I berate myself for not being able to cope better, I hate myself when I'm not able to have a positive day & I can be insensitive to my own feelings. I want to feel good, I want to have the happiness that others seem so freely to have, I want to be better able to cope as others seem to do, but somedays, that is so far out of my grasp that I get angry with myself.
When self care is lacking then recovery is almost at a standstill.
