Redditors who have "killed" their past self, do you feel it still living in you, sometimes coming out? How to deal with it?

Back in the day, I used to have huge temper issues. I was constantly on the verge of getting kicked out of private school, which finally technically ended up happening.

During the time in my previous school I had temper issues, and I grew to distrust everyone, since I was constantly getting bullied and lied to.

Now, where I am in new school, I still have people who hate me, but I finally have people around who I like being. But the distrust still persists. Even if I know that they are not lying, I still don't trust them. I want to trust them, but I can't. I always get the feeling I am being lied to. It pains me. It doesn't let me live.

I want to live like a normal person. I want to know how to trust people who I know are not lying, without needing any proof. But I cannot. Not in the society we live in, where to get successful you cannot trust anyone.

It is a narcissistic thought, but my subjective bads are also what make me objectively better than others.

Seems like being normal isn't good always.

"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels." -Tennessee Williams

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