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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Suppressed emotions can also leak out in the form of dreams or nightmares. If you’re trying to hide an emotion in your waking life, it may get expressed in your dreams. If you continue to leave the emotion unexpressed, you might even get recurring dreams about it. Suppressing negative emotions may lead to depression, low self-esteem, and even physical illness in extreme cases. Suppressing emotions is a risk factor in premature death, including death from cancer. 2
Research has shown that many illnesses have psychological reasons that are directly or indirectly related to stress. Suppressing emotions is an effective way to experience chronic stress because it’s mentally demanding and exhausting. 3
Emotional numbness: A consequence of emotional suppression
Sometimes we’re not able to consciously suppress our emotions because of the regularity with which they occur. We get so used to their presence that we no longer detect them.