Guys are just less likely to talk about that sort of thing in the open, because they're hardwired and socially conditioned to be "less emotional" and to "just deal with it". Girls are biologically wired to be more social with others and talk out their problems. Of course, because girls are more emotional, there still is the chance that they're blowing things completely out of proportion... more than likely it's some combination of the two.

I am a guy and I talk about things like this to my friends. that girl might have serious emotional problems like I do so stfu.

Blowing things out of proportion, just like #36 did? 36 - Relax dude... they meant that guys are less emotional IN GENERAL. Take some Midol and you'll be fine.

It took 10+ years and $thousands before I learned that my homelife was dysfunctional. Mom was wonderful, dad was verbal abuser. I had no idea that my life was abnormal... until I started hurting others. I have had to ask a lot of forgiveness. Now things are much clearer. My only request to my son and future daughter-in-law is that they take Parenting classes, and that he not turn out like me. If the cycle does not break, verbal abuse just gets passed on to the next generation. And now you have heard from a guy.

Calm down thesinginguy, I wasn't trying to start an argument. I was just stating an observation. Plus, I never said her problems weren't real.

yah and risk being beaten having to fight ur mom for no reason getting thrown in jail and kicked out find someone to take u out!!!

What the **** is your problem? Clearly you have no idea what it's like to experience emotional problems, and if so then you have no right to judge. And how do you know, in ANY way, that OP is privileged if their own parent cannot give them compassion?

Actually, BonJovi821, that's extremely presumptuous of you to assume that I have never experienced "emotional problems." However, I'm neither going to talk about them here, nor am I going to run around crying and look for compassion from a bunch of strangers online, because I deal with these things myself. I know for a fact that OP is privileged because unlike so many other people in the world, she has enough to eat (unless someone wants to tell me that people with who live in Connecticut and have access to Internet are starving to death), she doesn't have to worry about war at home or plague or famine, and she has a mother who clearly cares about her enough to teach her that gratuitous self-pity is not the way to get through life.

Oh God, I hate people like you. Does someone really need to be starving to have the right to be unhappy with their life? By your logic, you yourself have no right to complain about what others say and do because you're well off. And by well off, I mean have electricity and internet access, since those things obviously make life spectacular for everyone. I guess I shouldn't be allowed to have (professionally diagnosed) depression since I have reliable food and shelter, huh? Shame on me! By the way, aggressiveness to others who are suffering can be a sign of ignorance or denial of your own, similar problems. I've been there. You'll feel a lot better if you stop telling yourself that you're horrible for not being happy with a cushy life while people are going through real hardships. Everyone has their own burden to carry, after all, and not everyone is equally strong.

Supahnazi, do you know how to read? When did I say that I am "doing anything about" the world's problems, or that I'm going to solve them? Hint: never. What I'm saying is that people who have the luck of being born in the richest country in the world should count their lucky stars, since there are millions, if not billions of people in the world who would kill to have their plush lives.