![]() Your immediate reaction when someone presses your buttons is to focus on your own hurt and pain, failing to realize that the person who pushed your buttons is in pain. Self-absorption and self-pity cause tremendous depression. The problem is not that people push your buttons, but rather that you see them as a problem. In other words, the story you tell yourself about these people and the aggravation they cause you are the problems. As long as you see them as just one more roadblock in your way, you will stay stuck in suffering. ![]() They are people like you, trying to live their lives with minimal frustration from people who wear away at their patience and capitalize on their emotional vulnerabilities, as best they can. ![]() Violence, on the other hand (towards yourself or others) is destructive and the result of not knowing how to deal with conflict. The news media leads us to believe that many people in our world are violent. Without it, no progress would be made. We would never reach our goals and nothing new and exciting would come into our lives. Initially, people who push your buttons cause conflict.
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