What might be going on?

[FMLJoliecouer]

Not sure if this is the right category, but here it goes.

I need some advice on where to find info on what could explain my really odd behaviour

I do not think I have a psychiatric disorder but I have always been emotionally fragile and very , very sensitive.

My question is…I sometimes say or do really inappropriate things when I am around a priest…it doesnt matter if other people are around too and it doesnt happen all the time…just sometimes. I always think it is odd, even as it happens, but cant seem to stop it. By inappropriate, I do not mean sexual stuff…

I am constantly embarrassed by this…I havent talk to my spiritual advisor about it yet, but think I might. I dont feel comfortable talking to a priest about it…
One theory I have is that Satan is getting between us and doesnt want me to get close to Jesus, so wants to make me look bad, so the priest will think there is something wrong with me and want to stay clear of me…
Could this be it?

 

[Apryl]

I need some advice on where to find info on what could explain my really odd behaviour

I’m not sure if you’re serious… but you could be!

A lot of times, when one is around some one who they respect, or something that makes them nervous, the desire to be ‘right’ and to ‘behave’ causes them to almost not be able to.

Sort of like when something awkward happens and you start to giggle. It could be something that you REALLY do not think is funny, but being nervous could make you giggle… .react ‘inappropriately’

It sounds to me, a pseudo-armchair-head shrink, that you find priest deserving of respect, but because you have put them up on this pedestal (that they may not have been so deserving of as they are HUMANS) you become nervous and react in these odd ways.

Consider that the priest, while a man of the cloth, ordained, all those other things, is STILL a person

This reminds me of a few years ago when I went to someone’s funeral. At the graveside, I saw the priest cry. Wow! I never thought about the priest having lost some one whom he had been ministering to, and had become friends with, and he could have emotions.

Priests are people, too… and if you think of that, maybe you won’t find yourself with the nervous actions you’ve described. Hope this helps.

 

[FMLJoliecouer]

Thanks…yes I was serious…

You are probably right…I do put priests up on a pedastal and I am nervous around them, so probably weird…

I also have trouble thinking of them as human too…I am going to try to remember that…