Beginning Characters

I really think this post is overdue, so here it is. Posted, with no bow. But with GIFs! :P
I think that all beginning writers have a common problem--and I include myself in that number.
Sometimes our characters are flat, and emotionless, and we dismiss it and say: "No, they aren't." Truth is, sometimes they do this:

You might be saying right now: "Nothing like that ever happens in my novel!"
Sometimes it does. I say this even in mine. But, I've actually turned into someone who likes to injure my poor characters and show their pain. And then sometimes they go overboard like this:

Hang in there! I'm not here to criticize you! Or your characters.
We all do this. Since I really don't have a point to this post, and I still do this, so I don't have a solution for the problem, this is basically an "it's okay, I do that too" post.
Here for y'all.

So, do any of you have something to say on the matter? A solution to the problem, perhaps? :) Comment and let me know!

-Author