how often do you tell people you are not okay?

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another discussion prompted this thought. when people ask you how you are or as if your okay, is your automatic response "i'm okay/alright" or "yeah, im fine"? is that response always truthful? do you wish you had responded differently? if you were to actually say to someone - "actually, no i feel like crap.", how would they react? do you think they'd listen, do you think they'd care? its amazing to think how much we bypass our emotions to get on with the menial. i know that i always do this. im prone to the bad day or two but i always tend to hide it. i dont want others to know what im feel or the things that are going on. at tthe sime time i knwo that if i did talk about it, maybe i would feel a sense of relief - being able to get things off my chest. do you do this? what is your reaction to it?