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Neuroticism In The Movie 'Snoop'
In certain times in my life, I look at my anxiety and anger, as my weakness. They are emotions that at time if i let them they become overwelming and get the better side of my actions. Neuroticism is hard to treat due to the fact that it deals with an unstable side of our emotions and can reacted very aggressivly. One positive note that i noticed when i was reading SnooP, was that it had a lighter tone in the readings. A positive uplift was a great help, becuase reading all the scores from the Big Five topics, I saw that Goslings tone in his reading was positive. There were many times that looking at the symptoms of Neuroticism, I found myself distracted by different thing in the reading such as the movie refernences.

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