The Thesaurus Intervention

My family staged an intervention last week. They said I had a problem with using too many synonyms. I was shocked, stunned, flabbergasted, astounded, dumbfounded, bewildered, and taken aback. They handed me a thesaurus and said, 'This is the problem.' I said, 'No, that's the issue, concern, difficulty, dilemma, predicament, quandary, and conundrum.'