Someone told me to kill myself twice today, I don't know why it's been bothering me

[AFTT47]

I really take offence to all this "grow a pair", "get a thicker skin" bullshit, some people just are sensitive and they should be respected for the way they are as much as anyone else is.

It isn't a question of not respecting a sensitive person; it's a case of advising a young, sensitive person that this is something they should work on because otherwise, they may be in for a lot of misery down the road. Bring overly sensitive is a handicap because unfortunately, there are a lot of mean people out there and there isn't much any of us can do to change that. A particularly sensitive person is going to have to develop a strategy for dealing with it. If they don't, they will be faced with continuous instances of having their feelings hurt or they will start isolating themselves to avoid it.

Sorry but developing a thicker skin is sound advice. As to how to do that, well, I'm not a psychologist. I do endorse a self-help book by the late Wayne Dwyer called "Your Erroneus Zones. This was his first book (before he started getting mystical) and is very practical. It's probably a good fit for most atheists because it uses a well-reasoned, logical approach. I'm sure there are others like it out there.