Personal Reflection: My Personal Experience In Interpersonal Communication

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As an Eastern Michigan University student, I originally chose to take Interpersonal Communication to fill my general education requirements. However, sitting in the lectures and group sessions for the past few weeks made me realize theirs is more meaning to this class than just a few credits. Interpersonal Communications class is a chance to improve myself while enhancing my communication skills. Now I’ve focused my efforts in this class to goals set for myself and not just a good grade. I hope to learn more about how I communicate with myself and others, improve my openness with others, and improve my relationships with friends and family after taking Interpersonal Communications. After discussing “Self-Disclosure” in class, I felt that I didn’t communicate personal issues with myself or my loved ones enough. It is important for my own stability and metal health to face my problems through conversations with myself and my family more. The problem that I have with this is not understanding why I don’t talk about my internal issues openly. Whenever I’m going through a tough time I realize how I feel, but I can’t even talk to myself about what’s going on. To better understand why I go through this, I want to learn about my regular habits of communication to myself and others. Analyzing how I communicate and share feelings with others by …show more content…

I realized that I’ve only felt close to one person and I became very reliant on her emotionally and it’s not healthy. I have to learn how I communicate with myself to improve my ability to be open and my relationships with my family and friends. Improving these qualities will help when I need to talk out an internal issue and positively affect my self-evaluation. In the end, this will teach me to be emotionally reliant on myself and not to be such a negative burden on a women I care dearly

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