Repressed Emotions
Continuing on key points learned from Joyce’s book on managing our emotions; she discusses repressed emotions:
Continuing on key points learned from Joyce’s book on managing our emotions; she discusses repressed emotions:
“People who repress pain and never learn to deal with it properly eventually explode or implode, and neither one is a good choice.”
I personally believe that some of the mental illness and depression that we see stems from repressed emotions and people not knowing how to deal with painful or shameful things that have happened to them. Joyce compared repressed emotions to something stinky in the fridge. If what is stinking isn’t found and dealt with, it will cause more problems and only get bigger.
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