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I find myself thinking of people as useless and tedious. What's wrong with me?

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Last Updated: 06/10/2022 at 2:56pm
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Anonymous
November 17th, 2016 6:47pm
Nothing is wrong with you! Sometimes people have different tolerances of certain species, and humans are no different. You could try to see from their perspectives, but I swear nothing is wrong with you.
CounselorMattHere
October 12th, 2017 6:25pm
There is nothing wrong with you. We all range in our feelings towards others, however a quote that reminds me of this is " Bear in mind how others trreat you is a reflection of them and not of you." . Which brings me to question, what is there about you, that makes you feel like people are useless and tedious?
Anonymous
September 7th, 2017 6:11pm
You might unconsciously be afraid of yourself being useless and tedious (due to some childhood experience where you felt that way) and you're trying to convince yourself you're productive and straight forward by comparing yourself to others, perceiving them to be useless and tedious. You can tell a lot about yourself from what you admire in other people and what you really don't like in other people. What you admire in others can tell you about qualities you wish you could improve in yourself. What you don't like in others can tell you about qualities you wish you didn't have in yourself.
museofdreams
May 25th, 2017 5:25pm
Useless? Tedious? Well... why do you feel this way? What makes you feel people are this way? Do you feel we're all boring? We just demand things of you and give nothing back? What exactly makes us any of these. There's nothing wrong with you, you just need to identify why you feel this way and trace those thoughts back to yourself; We choose how we feel about stuff, nothing's wrong with our views, but that doesn't mean they are constructive in helping others.
racheliza26
May 21st, 2017 10:53pm
You are probably feeling disconnected from those around you. It is important to try to keep connections with people to understand them and yourself.
marvelousBlossom86
March 16th, 2017 7:04am
There is nothing wrong with you. People have different skills, talents, and intelligence. Maybe you just haven't seen them in their element, when they're applying these talents to be productive. Keep this in mind the next time you think of people as useless and tedious.
friendlyPerspective32
January 7th, 2017 2:06am
I tend to find myself thinking that too sometimes but perhaps we may just have really high expectations for other people that they cannot meet. Though we are not inherently bad, we are all humans with our own imperfections and limitations. It would be good to understand where other people are coming from first.
Anonymous
December 22nd, 2016 1:13am
Times of stress often reflect heavy workloads and frayed nerves. When we feel more burdened, others may appear to be doing less. Thus, it is completely natural for people to sometimes feel like others are less competent.
Anonymous
December 17th, 2016 8:20am
Nothing is wrong with you! You're just under whelming the power of what other people can do. Sure, people can do things that might question your way of thinking, but that's what it is to be unique. Don't ever think that something is wrong with you, you're as unique as they are!
Anonymous
December 9th, 2016 9:52am
This may have probably resulted into something that has happened in your past. Either someone made you feel tedious and useless or you have witnessed people who are close to you become something like this. This is all hypothetical by the way
Anonymous
November 11th, 2017 4:04pm
There is nothing wrong with you. It might be that you are more introverted and need to take time away from others to recharge enough for more interactions.
sharkradio
November 16th, 2016 10:41am
There's nothing inherently 'wrong' with that line of thinking; what has to be examined is what has lead up to this line of thinking. When I was working in customer service, I frequently found myself thinking HORRIBLE things about my customers because I was dissatisfied with my job and believed that I had no sustainable future. It's that kind of jaded apathy that breeds thoughts like this, so I think it's important to examine where you are right NOW and why these types of thoughts are cropping up.
Anonymous
November 11th, 2016 12:03pm
I was going through the same situations a lot of time. By helping others, by listening their problems ang by helping them out from the eorse situation it will definetly help me to understand myself more.
scotty4947
November 3rd, 2016 11:24pm
It's never a positive or good start to think something is wrong with you. Maybe you are just very different from everyone, and that's okay! From my experience, I have seen people who I can't get along with because we don't have any of the same interests. It's quite possible that you haven't found anyone, yet. Don't think something is wrong with you because you have different views as many people. Think of yourself as unique instead.
funnyHeart83
October 22nd, 2016 11:51am
Perhaps you haven't clicked with anyone in a while or maybe you might not be in an environment that suits you. What are your feelings about yourself?
ennaeyx
October 7th, 2016 4:44pm
There's nothing wrong with you, I understand your sentiment. You sound frustrated at other people. Have you tried talking with your friends about this?
2cupsofteaa
September 25th, 2016 8:09pm
Perhaps there have been a few people in your life that have made you feel that way through bad interactions with them?
TheTripleS719
September 17th, 2016 9:35pm
You might feel that way about yourself, so you feel the need to lash out and make others feel that way too.
GuidingLight1492
September 4th, 2016 4:12am
Try to look for the good in people. Instead if looking at their negatives, look at their positives. It will hopefully help you think more positive about them. Hope this helps!
HopieRemi
August 24th, 2016 8:04pm
What makes you think that there has to be something wrong with you? How does it feel when you find yourself thinking that people are useless and tedious? What brings these feeling on? What can you do to avoid thinking this way if at all possible?
juniper20
June 20th, 2018 5:01pm
Part of depression is isolation. Whether you have a lot of friends or very little; your brain will tell you not to care about them so you can isolate yourself. You might convince yourself they're lying to you, they don't care about you, or that they are just plain annoying. You might have depression or another mental illness. See a doctor to get a diagnosis and start treatment so you will no longer think they are tedious and useless. You can be happy!
FlintWolf
December 21st, 2018 11:35am
I don't think anything is wrong with you, but maybe the way you're framing how others have contributed to your own well being. The guy who changes my tires might have no teeth and no education, but he's there for me to change them whenever i need. Just because he's not as good at something as I am doesn't mean he's useless. As far as intellectual stimulation goes, it's always a good idea to turn off the TV and the cell phone to reevaluate ourselves, then have a good cry to come to terms with our faith, spirituality, philosophies and moral principals.
Anonymous
October 6th, 2018 3:43pm
Well I don't know exactly what could be wrong with you but please do not be harsh on yourself. I can kindly suggest some reasons why this could bve happening. First of all , useless and tedious are absolute words, meaning you leave no room for compassion and understanding, but only judgement. You judge those people on high standards and you always look for faults and weaknesses and when you find some you can't embrace it. This could be because someone close to you, your parents maybe used to or still judge you hard. Because someone didn't taught to you how to embrace vulnerability, how to embrace human sides, someone maybe judged you hard too. Another reason could be degrading a person when truly deep down you want them to acknowledge you. Being afraid to claim it or trying to gain their ackowledgement and failing, ends in you trying to degrade all people in fear of accepting you probably would like to hang out with some of them. But the main problem is you can not love someone else with all their faults and wekanesses without loving yourself. So please think how hard or not you judge yourself. Think if you project on other people feelings and emotions you hide inside you. Judging so hard means someone taught you this way. It could also mean someone treated you this way. Whatever it id, please work with yourself to find some happiness. Acceptance and understanding towards you and others takes a long time, but it is 100% possible. Best wishes from me :)
avanef
October 4th, 2018 10:36pm
Nothing is wrong with you. We are all entitled to our own opinions but it doesn't mean you're right or wrong. It may be because you have seen/met some people whom come off that way to you, but it is all based off of what you see and other information from there. In general though, nothing is wrong with you. If you find yourself thinking this is something you think of a lot, then it doesn't hurt to meet up with those people and maybe talk some of those things out, maybe they'd like to know. If not, I doubt it'll do any harm to anyone and I'd just let it go.
Anonymous
August 12th, 2018 11:24am
Sounds like you are burnt out on the people around you . Maybe take sometime to yourself and regroup .
Ikwan777
August 11th, 2018 5:19pm
You are likely having a cognitive distortion - an irrational thought process that often occur automatically and reinforced by certain core beliefs. Cognitive distortion could also result from unconscious adaptation to negative events.
RiverOfDreams
July 22nd, 2018 5:01pm
You may need to go to the root of the cause and ask yourself why you feel this way. I'm sure you're not a terrible person and there's a good reason why you came to this conclusion, just don't be satisfied with settling for a negative conclusion if it bothers you that you ended on one. Open the discussion with yourself back up.
Anonymous
July 19th, 2018 5:10pm
Nothing's wrong with you. Your way of seeing things show you're having early depression. But that's okay : you're not alone and there's people here you can talk to :)
warmPudding59
July 4th, 2018 9:38pm
You might be thinking in this pattern to protect yourself. Try to do some soulsearching about how you feel about being vulnerable.
Anonymous
July 3rd, 2018 6:42pm
maybe you are too active as compared to others that’s why....the way you think the way you decide the way you work it’s all part of your body and mind....and as you know nowadays people just want easy money that can be the reason you think like this about others and nothing is wrong in that...but just don’t be rude to anyone by telling them that they are useless try and motivate them instead 😊