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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold: How To Manage Your Emotions

Adults must move beyond childhood coping patterns—temper outbursts or emotional suppression—and learn to use emotions as information, calming or stepping up when needed.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

33 Unspoken Family Rules and How to Override Them

Unspoken family rules shape adult emotions, choices, and identity, often causing suppressed needs and harmful patterns that can be consciously replaced with healthier alternatives.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Personality Type No One Talks About

Type C personalities are conflict-avoidant, emotionally restrained people who suppress feelings, leading to psychological strain but can learn healthier emotional expression.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Adulthood Dilemma of Staying True to Yourself

Early efforts to match loved ones' rhythms become lifelong patterns of adapting, leading to withheld feelings, silence, and prioritizing peace over honest communication.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Distortion and Delusion of the Hyperbolic Family

Looking Good Families prioritize image over authenticity, suppress emotions and individuality, enforce poor boundaries, and foster shame-based compensations that lead to dissociation, depression, and addiction.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Growing up, Bianca could never predict her father's moods: the disorientation of an emotionally immature parent echoed into her adulthood

Children of emotionally immature parents develop hypervigilance, anxiety, suppressed emotions, and difficulty trusting their own needs due to unpredictable emotional environments.
Mental health
fromTiny Buddha
2 months ago

The Strength I Found Hidden in Softness - Tiny Buddha

Healing requires allowing oneself to feel and release buried emotions rather than maintaining a survival-based façade of strength.
fromPortland Mercury
3 months ago

Unbalanced

I'm absorbing a lot of criticism and I'm not really allowed to give my own. I'm a sounding board for everyone's emotions but I need to be reserved in my own until I know how you're going to feel about them. I'm pushing forward and supporting you whenever and however I can. I barely even have my own thoughts unless you say it's okay.
Relationships
Mental health
fromTiny Buddha
3 months ago

Why I Learned to Stay Quiet to Be "Good" - Tiny Buddha

Internalized survival strategy of fawning leads to silence, self-suppression, and bodily symptoms, disconnecting a person from true needs.
SF music
fromFuncheap
3 months ago

Roller Skating Clown Show: Just Be Happy (SF)

The performance "Just Be Happy" features a Clown's chaotic beach day, using diverse art forms to illustrate emotional suppression and the pursuit of joy.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

A new start after 60: I had a breakdown, the old me died and I cried for the first time in my life

Emotional suppression during childhood can drive adulthood achievements but may also lead to unresolved grief.
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