Iceberg

It's said that in reference to a problem that is large that the most obvious part is "just the tip of the iceberg." That's because, only a tenth of an iceberg's mass is above the sea water and the remaining 90% is below the surface.

So, even if a ship sailing through waters manages to avoid the 10% of an iceberg that is above water. The ship may hit a remaining portion of the 90% that is submerged.

That's precisely how I've felt lately. I've been trying express myself, but when I describe the ten percent of the problem that is most obvious people have dismissed the problem entirely or offer up some advice and settle on a solution. Typically, when I see someone truly has a problem, I resort to asking questions like: why? how does that make you feel? or I go back and reword something someone says to make sure I understand. I do this because I know that someone may only be telling me one tenth of the problem and that I will need to see the other nine tenths before I can do something to help them.

But, a few of the people that I've tried discussing my concerns with have not done this and they give me their solutions to the ten percent of the problem at hand, but ninety percent remains unacknowledged.

This inability to express myself to someone has left me very frustrated and on top of that, I've cut the shit out of myself using an electric "razor" and I ended up being bitterly angry for the past few days.