![]() You find it overemotional and too dramatic and begin to slowly distance yourself from that friend. ![]() One day a friend tells you that they are starting to think their parents never really loved them. You drink every night and are a bout fifty pounds overweight but you tell yourself it’s normal. Your childhood was not great, but nothing that bad happened. You don’t see yourself as emotionally repressed. You don’t know where the anger comes from, and it doesn’t fit with your idea that you are a good person all the time. Suddenly, one day at work, someone criticises an assignment you have done and you feel so furious you almost throw something at them. It’s just that when you are alone you feel bored and uncomfortable. You never feel bad, not at all, and you have tons of friends! And you try your best to never be alone… if you have to be by yourself you are calling or texting people or you binge watch television and overeat. ![]() Plus you are sure you are a happy go lucky person, you really are. You feel numb inside and decide it was never love anyway. Over the next few weeks, they keep bringing it up, and the more they do, the more distant you feel. You suddenly feel quite resentful and angry. You have been dating someone for quite a while, when they ask you what you think about them, you panic. ![]() So how might these symptoms of being emotionally repressed work in real life? Let’s look at a few scenarios. Have you often been told that ‘you have a wall’, that ‘there is something fake about you’, or that you are ’emotionally cold’? Or even that you are passive aggressive? These can be signs you have a backlog of hidden emotions that need to be expressed. Still not sure if you are emotionally repressed? It might be helpful to consider the feedback others often give you.
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