How much does the mood of those arround you affect you?

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11. So far he's ok but yes I've experienced that...

Some years back when he had a mini breakdown I had to comfort him. It wasn't that bad but seeing your own father cry and look terrified all the time is, well, more than a little unsettling. He is indeed more comfortable with me with his depression than my mother. The two of them are very different people, I'm much more like my father than my mother. He confides in her too but she's by comparison a much harsher coarser person. She's not at all unloving but she usually cuts right to the bone when dealing with issues and doesn't know how to handle delicate emotions or issues. At times she can some across as downright uncaring or cruel but that's not meant at all. At other times she's actually the one who is much more caring, it's a strange dynamic. Funny now that I think about it, my father is the soft hearted liberal of the family, a real teddy bear. He's nice to a fault. My mother is the harsh reality broker who will cut right to the chase. But when the two of them are at their kindest it's my mother who usually get's to me. Anyway like I said family dynamics are so complex and fucked up at times.