Well, I'm not quite sure how to start this out...So I'll just jump into it. At home I feel like a stranger, and with my friends...well, I don't feel like I can tell them everything. Like maybe we aren't that close or something, but I just feel like I shouldn't bother them, I guess. It's hard to explain, but I just kinda feel uncomfortable talking to them about most things. I even have a girlfriend and come August we will have been together for two years. And I still can't bring myself to tell her what bothers me and such. I guess I just have a hard time telling anyone anything really.
So, I guess if anyone has any ideas on how I can...Or what I could do to get out the feelings?
Thanks, it's appreciated.

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Hm. I don't know for sure, honestly. I know one of my strongest personal problems is that I am practically incapable of talking about any issue with the person I have an issue with. I'll go for hours with a close friend talking everything out, but just can't approach the person who actually needs to hear it. Not even a year ago I went for a good month of basically ignoring my best friend because of some stuff he had pulled, without ever even talking to him to get his side of the story. Eventually I realized I was just being a dick to him because even though yes I had a problem with him and yes he made a bad decision, I didn't give him any chance to explain himself, nor did I tell him what he did wrong so he could even try to make amends. I felt bad about that so I called him up and apologized for being judgmental and we talked the whole thing out.

It's a hard thing to do, bringing up trust issues. How are you supposed to tell someone you have an issue trusting them when you don't trust them? And honestly, even though it's that typical and seemingly useless phrase, you need to just stuff the fear and do it. There's no trick to getting over it, so I can't tell you how I did. Actually, I'm still pretty stuck in it, but I've at least found a few people who I can be brutally honest with.

One tip (here I go with my living contradiction, saying there's no trick and immediately dropping one) is to try to identify precisely what's bothering you and why, so you know exactly what it is you need to say to someone, and then find the simplest way to say it. Like in the situation with my friend, without going into specifics because personal situations, it was basically: "You disappointed me. How? You said it'd be different this time, I trusted you. Then it was exactly the same."

It might seem cold to try to shorten it so much, but it's easier to make a simple point and build off of it than it is to stress over something as complicated as human relation is. And you need something simple and easy to get started.

Dunno how much sense I just made, but hope it might help. I feel I'm never good with long messages. More conversational.

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>>1 I have a similar problem, though due to other reasons. I get super emotional when I try to talk to people about my issues and end up too choked up to explain. The way I got around it was doing it through le internet. First of all, posting your problems here on an anonymous site is a great start; the Rage Intensifies thread is great for getting all your emotions and ranting out. Second of all, it's through your computer and the internet that you can write how you feel out and share it with others without it being 'live'.

I recently wrote up a rant about my mom and shows it to her. We had the most insightful conversation we've ever had. Despite me saying the same thing to her before, it came out so much stronger in writing, and she's honestly starting to understand now. I would suggest taking this kind of indirect approach at first. Try ranting to friends on FB or via text first.

As you get more comfortable telling people how you feel, you'll find that saying how you feel in person comes a lot more naturally. You won't be able to start out just randomly opening up to people in person if you've never been able to open up in the first place :V

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>>1 I used to have a similar problem. I always used to be too scared to talk about my problems with others for fear of making them feel either obligated to help, or completely the opposite. I also cannot talk about a problem I have with someone because just the thought of me accidentally upsetting them gives me a near anxiety attack. But it is good to try to talk about your problems with others, especially with your close friends and romantic partners. Nothing good comes from letting worries about a certain person sit inside you.