Insecurity capitalisation?

[Answerprancer]

Have you ever been in a situation where you lay yourself open to a mixed group of people and then have one or two people 'home in' on you in a way that suggests that they want to deliberately capitalise on your insecurity?
For example, you talk frankly about something that is going on in your life that worries you, a few respond sympathetically, a few respond practically, a few respond dismissively ...then someone says something that REALLY needles you and plays directly upon the worry ...almost as if they KNOW it's having that effect.

[brenda]

Not been in that situation fortunately.

However what you are experiencing sounds to me like a full cross section of responses from other people.
Maybe you need to be a little more selective to whom you reveal issues that are of concern to you.
You will always find a wind-up individual in most social groups, and you are lucky if there is only one.
Put remarks made by such people out of your mind , just recognise them for what they are -- a wind up. Good luck .Brenda.