Neurotic is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations. - may be defined simply as a "poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to change one's life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more complex, more satisfying personality.
They tend to have negative views to themselves and their emotions because they acquired negative notion within them as they grow up. I believe in a scripture that says, "what you sow, is what you reap."
Cultural influences decide how people display grief for their loved ones, such as dressing in black, wearing certain articles of clothes, even whether they show emotions outwardly
