Some people carry dense painbodies, which are never fully dormant. They can smile and converse politely, but it doesn't take psychic powers to feel the lump of unhappiness that bubbles under the surface, waiting for the next event to react, the next person to blame or confront, the next reason to be unhappy.
Your pain bodies are never satisfied, they are always hungry. They intensify the ego's need for enemies.
Their reactivity blows the smallest things out of proportion because they try to drag others into their drama by making them react. Some of these people live in protracted and ultimately futile battles or litigation against companies and individuals. Others are consumed with obsessive hatred against their former spouse or partner. Without acknowledging the pain they carry inside, they project their pain onto situations and events through their reaction. Since they have no awareness of what they are, they do not distinguish between an event and their reaction to it.
For them, unhappiness, and even suffering itself, is an integral part of the event or situation. Being unaware of their inner state, they don't even know that they are deeply unhappy and in pain.
Sometimes people who have such dense bodies become activists for some cause. The cause may be laudable and they are likely to achieve their goals at first. However, the negative energy surrounding what they say and do, coupled with their unconscious need for enemies and conflict, tends to generate increasing opposition to their cause.
They usually end up making enemies within their own organization as well, because wherever they go they find reasons to feel bad, so their painbody continues to find what it is looking for.
(A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle)