You find it overemotional and too dramatic and begin to slowly distance yourself from that friend. One day a friend tells you that they are starting to think their parents never really loved them. You drink every night and are a bout fifty pounds overweight but you tell yourself it’s normal. Your childhood was not great, but nothing that bad happened. You don’t see yourself as emotionally repressed. You don’t know where the anger comes from, and it doesn’t fit with your idea that you are a good person all the time. Suddenly, one day at work, someone criticises an assignment you have done and you feel so furious you almost throw something at them. It’s just that when you are alone you feel bored and uncomfortable. You never feel bad, not at all, and you have tons of friends! And you try your best to never be alone… if you have to be by yourself you are calling or texting people or you binge watch television and overeat. Plus you are sure you are a happy go lucky person, you really are. You feel numb inside and decide it was never love anyway. Over the next few weeks, they keep bringing it up, and the more they do, the more distant you feel. You suddenly feel quite resentful and angry. You have been dating someone for quite a while, when they ask you what you think about them, you panic. ![]() So how might these symptoms of being emotionally repressed work in real life? Let’s look at a few scenarios. Have you often been told that ‘you have a wall’, that ‘there is something fake about you’, or that you are ’emotionally cold’? Or even that you are passive aggressive? These can be signs you have a backlog of hidden emotions that need to be expressed. Still not sure if you are emotionally repressed? It might be helpful to consider the feedback others often give you. ![]() suffer constant flus and cold (low immune system).use self-destructive behaviours, such as overeating and drinking too much.have a mind that is foggy and unclear, or are forgetful and absent-minded.experience low-level anxiety or ongoing stress.feel low and tired for no real reason, or are mildly depressed.Related psychological issues can mean that you: say nothing if someone does something that bothers you, then plan to slowly back out of the relationship, or to secretly ‘get back at them’ in your own time.have few truly close friendships, and struggle with intimacy or have a fear of intimacy.might even be the ‘clown’, always making everyone else laugh but hiding your own feelings.seem really open and chat up a storm with strangers, but the real you is still hidden.Rarely if ever open up to people but prefer to be private So if you are affectionate and open with friends and family but struggle to relax around colleagues, it could be more a case of something like new job jitters or a personality clash. If you are emotionally repressed, showing or understanding your emotions will be a problem in all areas of your life, not just some. This question, innocently asked by another, will leave you feeling blank, speechless, powerless and confused, or alternately disproportionately annoyed, as if someone is violating your privacy by asking it. ![]() How do I know if I am emotionally repressed?Īn interesting sign that you are emotionally repressed can be that you hate being asked how you feel about something or someone. The problem arises when our emotions are so repressed, not only do we hide how we feel in public? We just don’t know how we feel even when alone, or when with people we care about. We all suppress our emotions when, say, midway through a presentation we remember a recent breakup and feel sad.Ī healthy person can then later release those emotions in the company of friends, or when alone with their journal and a box of tissues.
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