Emotional responses/Anxiety

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Not sure if this belongs here... Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else has issues with emotional responses or has any knowledge or insight on the topic.

I have always thought that if anything, I lack emotional responses. I don't really express things like excitement, happiness, surprise etc verbally or through body language like everyone else does. I also lack emotional involvement in situations and am not affected by normally dangerous , annoying or fear-inducing things the way that other people are. I remain calm and rational as other people freak out.

However, I had a fight with my close friend/"honorary sister" about some of my issues and she says that I need to figure out how to control my emotions. She says that everything is emotional for me and part of my problem is that I respond emotionally before thinking. Specifically, when I react to a specific person or situation that upsets me or makes me anxious. So I'm confused. She says it's up to me to sort this out and I want to but not sure how to go about it. Is it possible that my emotions are just unevenly distributed, so to speak? Like all concentrated on the a upsetting stuff so that there is none left for the normal everyday stuff? How can I balance this out?

It's impossible to understand what is going on without knowing details of what your friend is referring to. Maybe you just react emotionally to things that other people do not have much of an emotional reaction to, and vice versa. Maybe she is just assuming you are emotional about things based on what you say (for example, in my experience, people will assume that one feels a negative emotion towards something or someone simply because one criticizes it/the person).