{"id":200,"date":"2019-07-01T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:45:58","slug":"repressed-emotions-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/repressed-emotions-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Repressed Emotions: Are You Holding Something In?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you an emotional repressor? Do you suppress emotions<\/a> from childhood, anger, sadness, or other feelings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about repressors, and how to healthily deal with your emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How to Feel Your Emotions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Emotionally self-aware<\/strong> people are aware of their moods as they happen but can be mindful about how they deal with them. They\u2019re more sure of their boundaries since they know how they\u2019ll feel. They don\u2019t dwell on bad moods and can get out of ruts faster. They can be mindful of their emotions and manage them successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, emotional repressors are people who repress their emotions routinely and automatically erase emotional disturbances from their minds and their awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can be positive or negative. When it\u2019s positive, it might be more appropriate to call these people unflappables<\/em><\/strong>. They\u2019re actually deft experts at handling their own emotions, capable of pushing emotional responses out of their brains without much struggle and going on about their business. They\u2019ve gotten so good at it, in fact, that they aren\u2019t even aware of their negative feelings. They\u2019ve silenced them completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, on the negative side, this can also mean the person is completely out of touch with their emotions<\/strong>, still experiencing primarily physiological symptoms of emotions but being totally oblivious to the emotional cause of these symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n