Title: The Dangers of Holding In Your Emotions
Headings: The Dangers of Holding in Your Emotions
The Dangers of Holding in Your Emotions
The Stress of Silence
5 Ways You Can Cope
1. Know Your ABCs
2. Practice Healthy Habits
3. Read
4. Learn to Be Resilient
5. Get Counseling
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Content: Helping Your Kids Thrive During and After the Split. Constantly elevated stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol "can weaken your immune system and bring on headaches, cold sores, and flare ups of preexisting conditions such as backaches and fibromyalgia," a chronic condition characterized by pain and fatigue, Reynolds adds. Keeping your emotions at bay can cause an individual to lack self-worth and to be anxious and depressed, which can foster physical illness, agrees Tina B. Tessina, Ph. D, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in California. " The stress of repressed emotions can cause tension in particular parts of the body, causing pain there," she says. Moreover, "Emotional eating, as a result of stress, can lead to a host of physical ailments, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease," Tessina adds. Additionally, "Sometimes avoidance of emotions is part of a psychiatric condition," Bellehsen adds. Conditions characterized by avoidance of emotions include anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders. 5 Ways You Can Cope
Dealing with repressed emotions is difficult. " It can be a very hard pattern to break," Reynolds admits. "