Suppressing Emotions

As social beings, we humans experience multiple emotions throughout the day. Our emotions are affected by our thoughts and perceptions. That's why the emotions we feel motivate us to take action.

Expressing emotions is as important as feeling them. There are no right emotions or wrong emotions, normal or abnormal emotions. What prevents us from labeling our emotions as right, wrong, normal or abnormal, and therefore from expressing them, is the judgment of others, that is, the thought of being judged. At this point, the "emotion suppression" that we are all familiar with comes into play. With the thought that he will be judged, the individual sometimes suppresses the positive or negative emotion or feelings he experiences in order to keep them under control instead of expressing them.

Of course, the thought of being judged is not the only reason behind suppressing emotions. Sometimes we postpone and suppress our emotions because it is not the time or place to express the emotion we experience, sometimes just so that the other person does not get upset or hurt, sometimes because expressing our emotions would be a sign of weakness, sometimes out of concern for the evil eye in our culture, and sometimes because we do not want to experience that emotion and struggle with it. . This method of suppressing emotions, which only saves the moment, which we sometimes do with awareness and sometimes without awareness, and which fills us up over time, causes countless harm to us.

Some of the symptoms that show that you are suppressing your emotions:

If you avoid talking about your feelings to yourself, let alone talking about them to others

If you are constantly busy with other things to escape from your feelings, if you postpone experiencing your feelings by watching TV series and movies, playing games, if you constantly sleep to avoid thinking, if you consume too much alcohol

If you overreact to very simple events that you would otherwise consider normal because you suppress your emotion and do not face that emotion

If you feel alienation from yourself and your environment, which we call depersonalization and derealization

You cannot concentrate on daily life and constantly if you are absent-minded

Even though you have time, you feel that you cannot find time for anything

Both physiological and psychological consequences of suppressing emotions:

Anxiety

Panic attack

Depression

Psychosomatic symptoms such as headache, gastritis, reflux, high blood pressure

Sleep disorder

Fatigue

If you think you have these symptoms, seeing a specialist soon would be a good step to improve your quality of life. I wish you a life where you can express your feelings easily.

 

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