"I feel excluded by everyone", "no one likes my company", "everyone moves away from me and I do not understand why they do it" are phrases that express a lot of loneliness and above all pain. People are social beings by nature, we like to feel accepted and recognized, so when the opposite happens and we feel rejected, that we are not part of a group or community, a great sadness invades us caused by the feeling of loneliness. If you are a person who constantly feels rejected and you ask yourself over and over again: “why do I feel that people reject me?”, It is because you would like to understand what is happening and above all find that answer that you have not been able to do for so long answer.
That is why in this Psychology-Online article: "why do I feel like people reject me”, We will explain in a simple and detailed way the reasons why this may be happening to you, as well as we will provide you with some tips that can help you.
Before going on to answer your question: why do I feel that people reject me? It is important that you reflect more deeply about your situation. To do this, you can take into account these series of considerations that you could be overlooking. Feeling rejected by others is not a pleasant feeling and we must work to manage it in the best possible way.
- In what situations do you feel rejected? Define the specific situations that make you feel rejected by others. It may be for example that with your lifelong friends you feel very well accepted and / or with your family, however at work the opposite or the other way around happens to you. You have to identify which are the situations in which you feel that people reject you the most.
- Do all people reject you? In most cases we tend to generalize and say that everyone is like this, such a thing happens to us all the time, etc. however it is almost impossible for this to happen. Surely there are people who are not rejecting you, however, because you focus on those who do, you stop paying attention to them.
- What kind of people reject you? Think carefully about the type of people for whom you feel rejected, do they have some characteristics in common? Are they close people Or are they not? Are they authority figures? Try to classify the type of people for whom you feel rejected usually.
- Do you reject them too? Sometimes when we feel rejected by one or more people, we tend to behave more distant and even do the same with them. It may be that the type of people you feel rejected by do not like you and that they themselves also perceive that from you.
- Do you have any idea why this is happening? If you wonder why people reject you but you have in mind some of the possible reasons, either because you have realized it yourself or because others people have told you, it is important that you analyze them objectively and try to realize how real they are and if they are, ask yourself what you can do to improve it.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
