Title: Emotional suppression: Causes and consequences - PsychMechanics
Headings: Emotional suppression: Causes and consequences
Emotional suppression: Causes and consequences
What are suppressed emotions?
Causes of suppressing emotions
Consequences of suppressing emotions
Emotional numbness: A consequence of emotional suppression
Expressing emotions is important
Sometimes you can’t express your emotions
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Content: They don’t want to ruin their relationships. If you break it down, there are a host of psychological reasons why people suppress their emotions, some directly or indirectly related to maintaining one’s social image: Negative emotions are painful to experience and acknowledge, so suppressing them is a means to escape them. People want to appear perfect to others and to themselves. So acknowledging their mistakes and failures and the feelings associated with them can be hard. Many people believe that expressing negative emotions makes a person appear weak and lacking control. The positive thinking movement encourages people to ignore their negative emotions. People don’t want to get labeled as ‘negative’. Consequences of suppressing emotions
Suppressing our emotions when they need to be expressed causes us to dump them elsewhere on innocent people if we’re not careful. If we keep on suppressing our negative emotions, they get buried in our subconscious.