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View Poll Results: In general, are you an Optimist or a Pessimist?

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  • Optimist

    6 23.08%
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    10 38.46%
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  1. #1
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    Default Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I'm wondering if your outlook on life has something to do with your recovery speed. I myself am a hopeless optimist. I always have something positive to say about any situation.

    What about you? Where are you with your emetophobia? Do you think your outlook on life effects it?
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  2. #2

    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I used to be a very postiive person before I developed emetophobia.

    Now, with emetophobia, I am very much a pessimist.

  3. #3
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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I've been a pessimist for years, even long before I became emet. I think it was just something that happened during my rebellious teen phase and it kind of stuck with me.

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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I'm totally in the middle! One minute the glass is half full, the next it's half empty!
    My Mantra:
    If you continue to do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I'm in the middle. I am VERY hard on myself and a pitiful perfectionist. the perfectionism is real for me, it causes me SEVERE anxiety. I always think I am going to fail, mess up, ruin everything. I am extremely self counscious, and the list goes on. I am so hard on myself it comes off as shy (which I am) and it makes me hate myself. In that way I am a pessimist for sure.

    But...when it comes to other people's situations I am an extreme optimist. I try and solve all problems, make peace in my school and community, find the best in situations, accept all people and look for the good in everyone and everything.

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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I'm in the middle as well. I consider myself a realist and view things through the lens of objective logic over any specific positive or negative outlook.
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  7. #7
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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I'm very optimistic, yet at the same time I tend to criticize myself and be a perfectionist. But with other people and situations - I am hopelessly optimistic!
    David

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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    I`m definately a pessimist, & always have been. I seems to me that I`ve always been unlucky, & the only way to avoid bad things happening is to plan for them so that hopfully I can avoid them, also, if I expect the worst to happen & it doesn`t, then that`s a relief, & makes for a good day.

  9. #9
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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    i try to stay positive. i do for other people and situations other than my own. when it's more personal, i tend to be more negative, even bordering on feel like nothing is ever going to work out. i definitely think this phobia has had a hand in that... some days it just feels so hopeless. other days you feel like you are going to beat it.

    i still try very hard to see the bright side of things. "what you think, you become", right?

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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    Definitely true imo Chickman. Another saying I keep in mind is "It could always be worse!"


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  11. #11
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    Default Re: Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

    Im an optimist, i wake up every day happy and looking forward to the day ahead, its only my emet that brings me down.

 

 

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