Why is it so important to share your feelings?

In my personal experience, sharing your feelings helps to relieve stress/anxiety while also bringing you closer with whoever you are talking to. Sharing your feelings helps to clear the air of any tension you may have. Sharing feelings may also help you to move on or understand why you feel the way you do. Sometimes negative thoughts you had in your head can sound less important or silly when you say them out loud. I think it's also a great way to blow off some steam, instead of holding in your feelings and waiting until it's too much.

It is important to share your feelings because most of the time you will feel better after talking to someone about it. If you’re scared to talk to someone or just don’t want anyone to know then you can write about it. Keeping your feelings inside and trying to ignore them is not going to make it go away. It’s just going to make it much worse. If you want to feel better then you are going to have to deal with it. This doesn’t mean that every time you are in a bad mood you automatically have to try to deal with it. Sometimes it’s best to take a break so if you’re not feeling up to it then just do something that you think might make you feel better.

A lot of the time we are not willing to share our feelings because of a fear of judgement. Sharing our feelings is a really intimate event and can expose our vulnerabilities and make us feel hurt if we think about the negative reception we have received in the past to repeat itself or worry about the stigma surrounding what we talk about which leads to us putting our feelings on hold. Not opening up doesn't mean we don't have the vulnerabilities. All it means is we are kind of stuffing it inside us, which may sometimes lead them to turn up autonomously, sometimes in more painful and severe ways. There is of course limits to sharing your feelings. Some of the things shared can be uncomfortable for others to hear and it’s ok to have boundaries up with how open you want to be about what you’re going through. Sharing is a process that comes naturally and does not work authentically if forced. Sharing our feelings is a genuine way to connect with others; friendships and relationships in general often consolidate or take a step further when feelings are shared. From sharing we get the opportunity to connect with parts of ourselves; and it is through such connection with deeper parts of ourselves that we find the nutrition for growth which can make life more meaningful. Do communicate with one of our listeners or therapists if looking for a safe space for self-expression and if you want a listening ear. Self-help guides and mindfulness exercises to are available on our site for more information about any topic of your concern and a way to normalize what you are going through.

Communication is what bonds all humans together. Humans thrive on interaction, without it we would cease to exist. Sharing how you feel is the only way to communicate. To be honest and open with someone is vulnerability. Vulnerability is what creates and ignites relationships allowing them to grow. All these things make the human connection ever so special and rare, which is why sharing your feelings is important.

I think sharing your feelings is a way to get things out of your mind. Sometimes, this can be really damaging to your own mental health if we do not share our feelings with someone. We tend to overthink when we keep our feelings to ourselves. Sharing what you feel about something lets you have another perspective about the issue. Things that might look scary might turn out to be just a small thing that another person might have experienced before. That is why sharing your feelings is important. If you keep it to yourself, one day you would not be able to take it because of the immense pressure on yourself. Taking it out and letting it go would be like freeing yourself. You would definitely feel a lot better after sharing.

Sharing feelings is a good way to prevent those feelings from becoming internalized. It's also easier to self soothe when we externalize our emotions. Once they're out in the open we can slow them down and reason through things. Sometimes when we let strong emotions stay in our head they tend to snowball and get bigger and harder to control. I was diagnosed as ADHD when I was really young, but it wasn't until I was an adult when I started to understand the nuances of how this neuro-developmental disorder would affect me. And the ability to self soothe was one of them. ADHD people often have no choice but to externalize our emotions as this is the only way we can process them.

There are so many reasons as to why sharing your emotions and feelings are important, and to some extent it depends on you as a person and how sharing (and not sharing) impacts you and your own emotions. Some people are naturally sharers, and others may feel less comfortable doing so, but either one (or both) is perfectly normal and okay. Here are a few reasons that sharing can be amazing though! - Sharing can help release anxiety and improve communication. - It can enable others to help or support you, and understand or empathise with the things you are going through. - Bottling things up can lead to depression, and even if someone may not be able to fully understand you, it can be freeing and relieving to vent out your emotions. - Talking can help you to see things differently, and potentially even identify something that could help you that was clouded by emotion before. 7 cups is an amazing place to come and share your feelings if you don't feel comfortable doing so with your friends/ family, from our 1-on-1 chats to forums to community rooms, there is a whole community of amazing people here to support you. You could also consider speaking to a trained professional, viewing self help guides or finding tips on forums to help you to further reach out.

It is SO important to share your feelings in general, whether if it's just to one other person or a couple - so long as you trust and feel safe with them. This is because mentally, we humans are social creatures who need interaction on a day-to-day basis; we need and want to feel safe, cared for, loved and heard. If you don't share your feelings, bottling up will create a heavy burden, a toll on your wellbeing that's constantly going to be plaguing you. Bottled feelings will build up until you can't hold it in anymore, where it would burst either in a form of a breakdown, or some other possibly dangerous and harmful things. Please, if you don't have anyone to talk to in real life, that's why 7Cups is here: we're here to listen to you!

Sharing your feelings with someone whom you trust will help you develop a clarity of thoughts. It happens at times we get in many puzzled situations in life. Here, perceptions play an important role. The person with whom you share your feelings would grant you a perspective that could altogether change your strategy to tackle the problems. Thus, the step of sharing your feelings is important to guide yourself to the path of solution to your problems. And at this platform, one would find ample opportunities to find good people to understand your concerns and deliver perceptions that help your way out of distress.

Keeping it all bottled up wont result in anything good! Your mental state will continue to get worse as time goes on and eventually everything will flood out whether it be an argument with a loved one, or a breakdown. Its better to let things out, to a therapist, a friend or even just a 7cups listener. When you let things out, sometimes the person listening can offer some good advice too! So not only will you feel better but you will also have a way to try and make some changed/better yourself. Its seen as a sign of strength to let things out, and its overall healthier.