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We are still learning how to recognize our emotions, especially the challenging ones, and how to deal with them in a healthy way. However, when we grow up in dysfunctional homes where we are taught to repress our emotions and live in a conflictual and chaotic environment, we begin to build trauma that persists into our adult relationships.
The expert also listed a few indicators that indicate we are suppressing and repressing our emotions:
- Rarely yell or cry: We bottle up painful emotions and keep them to ourselves because we are unsure of how to project healthy emotions. As a result, humans rarely yell or cry when we are furious or depressed. But we frequently act irrationally and say things that we subsequently regret.
2. We want to avoid conflict because we don’t want to tackle the issue’s source. Therefore, when we experience challenging emotions, we want to run away from the problem rather than tackling its underlying causes.
3. When asked how we are feeling, we frequently experience feelings of discomfort or irritability because we are afraid of seeming vulnerable to others.
4. Wants: In an effort to appease others, we suppress our own needs and desires in favor of supporting other people’s choices.
5. Discomfort: Childhood trauma taught us that emotions are dangerous, which is why we sometimes feel uneasy around emotionally vulnerable people.
