Too Emotionally Affected by Work
I’m a junior employee and I get way too emotionally affected by work.
I take feedback, tone, and passive-aggressive behavior really personally, even though I know I shouldn’t. It ends up sitting heavy in my chest and affecting my mood more than it should.
To be clear, this isn’t coming out of nowhere — there have been past incidents that made me more hyper-aware of tone, feedback, and how people communicate. So I think I’ve become overly sensitive to it now.
I also struggle with what feels like workplace “fakeness” (people being nice to your face but possibly saying something else behind the scenes), and I feel like I’m not really equipped to deal with corporate politics yet.
I try to be considerate and aware of others, but I don’t always feel that same understanding back, which makes it feel a bit imbalanced.
I think part of it is that I don’t have much of a life outside of work right now, so work carries more weight for me than it probably should.
I’m aware this isn’t a healthy way to experience work, and I don’t want it to keep affecting me like this.
For those who’ve been through this earlier in their careers — how did you learn to not take things so personally and handle workplace dynamics without it affecting you this much?