Is it normal for me to bottle up my feelings and not deal with them?

Not dealing with your feelings is a way of defensive coping. Defensive coping merely masks problems, not work to fix them. Active coping mechanisms are a healthier way of combating stress and feelings head on. While we all use defensive coping mechanisms at times, using them all of the time can have negative impacts on your mental health.

Everyone does it but they do it because they don't wanna bother people with their problems I am also like that.

To be honest, "Normal" Is a relative word. What is normal for you, could be entirely strange to someone else, or vise-versa. So is it normal to bottle up your feelings rather than dealing with them? For some people, yes. For some, that IS how they deal. And some people I would imagine would tell you that its unhealthy to do that, and can cause more problems such as anxiety, depression along with any number of physical ailments. But is it "normal"? Well... a number of people do that very thing, but there is also a number of people who learn to deal with their problems head on. I guess it depends on your definition of normal.

Bottling up your feelings and ignoring is a type of 'avoidance coping'. This means we deal with our emotions by ignoring them. It is common, although there are healthier ways of dealing with some of our more unpleasant experiences. One of the dangers with bottling our emotions is that they get harder to deal with as time goes on, and little things can set off major reactions. Talking to people you trust can help a lot when you have a lot on your plate; listeners on this site are a great source to turn to.

i think so, yeah. i notice that a lot of people quite often do that, me included. i think we bottle up our emotions because we think it'll be easier when actually we all know it's not. but sometimes at the moment, it gets tiring to deal with emotions especially when they're all cloudy and foggy and they all come at you all at once. we tend to dodge these emotions to avoid crying, avoid getting hurt further. it's wrong yet it feel alright. we think we handle it alright. but then you'll start feeling numb and random emotions you thought you were over with would start resurfacing out of nowhere and you'll eventually explode.

Yes, it's perfectly normal to bottle up feelings and not deal with them. I think a lot of us tend to do that,however it's better to come to terms/deal with our feelings than allow them to pile up. Because bottling our feelings over and over just makes things worse for us in the long run.

No, its never normal to hide your feelings. have to deal with them cause they can make you feel even worst when they finally comes out.

No it is not, but in my personal experience I rather take it out in a diary or through a video diary rather than share it with the wrong people.

Absolutely-- though that doesn't mean that it's healthy to do so! It's much better to express your feelings and to let them out, lest they consume you from the inside out.

Bottling up feelings isn't really normal to be honest. It means you grew up never being able to express or never having the opportunity of doing so. In the long run, it eats you up.. Creates more issues than the already existing one.. And eventually you blow up. It's like.. A container that you keep trying to stuff with something or the other.. And eventually it breaks.. And once it breaks.. You can definitely stick it back together, but you end up with a container that make break again.. With little pressure.., to the point that it cannot be stuck together again.. It's the same with human emotions.. Bottling up works.. Only for a while.. Then you blow out of proportions .. And sometimes.. It gets harder to fix things or handle emotions..