Why is it so important to share your feelings?

Only because feelings and emotions, particularly anything that is bothering you can expand inside your head and manifest themselves into ugly, overgrown monsters! This can also be the stage when you start to lose perspective on certain issues and everything starts to feel a bit out of your control. Giving them an outlet in the form of sharing and talking about them is a fantastic way to shrink them back down again into something much more manageable. And having another person's take on them can also be a surprisingly useful tool in dealing with them. Speaking as someone who bottled everything up and then learned how to talk about things, I'd recommend it.

Listening can make a person feel validated. It can help them talk out some of their own issues that they otherwise wouldn't be able to work through. It helps them feel they are not alone that their are people out there who care and want to be there for them. It benefits both listener and speaker in a shared compassionate exchange.

I believe sharing our feelings is a process or an act of acceptance in itself. We are not only being honest with others (with whom we share) but with ourselves too. I realise that whenever I find the courage to talk about what I feel, it helps me see my situation more clearly. It makes it more real, more believable. Letting it out and freeing myself often in turn helps me to internalize what I have shared and been through. Expressing myself is often a difficult task for me, but when I do find and take the opportunity, it reminds me how much more I should be doing it.

Feelings left untold will begin to accumulate to the point of explosion - when they do explode, not only will this whirlwind of emotion be difficult to manage, the resources we have to deal with them will be so overwhelmed that the likelihood that we will be able to deal with these emotions safely is reduced.

Sharing our feelings helps us connect with other people on a basic human level. Feelings are a universal part of the human experience.

Humans were created to connect.. if you share your feelings with other people you are actually make this amazing connection and you'll be part of this world. Also suppressing feelings will make you more tired and lonely. By accumulating negative feelings inside you it will cause you to be sad and depressed. Opening up at least to your close friends and family will make you feel a lot better and they may provide all the support you need. One last benefit is issues in your relationship with someone else may simply be solved by opening up to them.

It´s not just about the feeling itself, rather about the consequences that feeling is having on me which I need to vent. In order to name , aknowledge and accept those consequences and that feeling. This in particular when the feeling affects me since long or when I can clearly sense I cant manage it.

It lightens your heart. It may sound a bit unreal but it is true when you share your feelings, the good one multiplies and the negative ones reduces. Think of your heart as an empty glass and your feelings as little drops of water. If you keep on adding water to this glass without emptying it once in a while, it will overflow causing a breakdown. Therefore let your feelings out once in a while. It is totally okay. You are only human :)

It is so important to share your feelings because keeping them inside can hurt you. If you don't talk about how you are feeling they will build up into something much worse. Anger, resentment, and loss of friendships and relationships can come out of this. Even worse you can become depressed and haunted with thoughts that keep you up at night. It is best to let out the hurt, anger and any other feelings you are having up front, because it is much better than keeping them in and letting them escalate.

It's important to share your feelings because talking about them helps you become more connected to those feelings and they will be easier to feel as a result if you find someone you trust to share them with. Also, doesn't it make us feel less alone when others validate our feelings?