The Impact of Repressed Emotions on Mental and Physical Well-being

Adults who have repressed emotions frequently feel detached from their emotions since they experienced a different childhood experience.

You may be more likely to suppress feelings, for example, if your caregivers:

They rarely expressed emotion or talked about their feelings.

You were shamed or penalized for expressing your emotions.

disputed your experience or told you that your emotions were incorrect

If expressing your emotions as a child resulted in upsetting or painful effects, you undoubtedly learnt that it was far safer to avoid doing so totally. As an adult, you may continue to conceal deep feelings without realizing it. You may also realize that you tend to put aside even the emotions you do detect

Can it really lead to physical symptoms?

“Hold on,” you might think. “My emotions don’t make me sick… do they?”

They actually can, in a way

Stress, anxiety, and suppressed feelings may manifest as physical symptoms, such as feeling sick or vomiting: this may occur even when the individual is perfectly physically fine, but the source of the problem is actually his mental state, whether that individual is feeling a lot of stress or anxiety that he doesn't know how to express, or he's feeling overwhelmed by things that he can never share with anyone, as if the body tried to tell himso that physical symptom is like a distress call that you don't want to ignore it 

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