Tag: #emotions
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When you shut down your emotions
‘When you shut down emotion, you’re also affecting your immune system, your nervous system. So the repression of emotion, which is a survival strategy, then becomes a source of physiological illness later on. ‘ -Gabor Mate However, it’s not just your long-term health that can suffer if you suppress your negative emotions. There have been…
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Alexithymia: The Emotion-Processing Dysfunction That Makes It Hard to Identify Emotions
The article:https://themighty.com/2019/10/alexithymia-cant-identify-emotions/?utm_source=newsletter_mental_health&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_mental_health_2019-11-09&$deep_link=true At some point in our lives, most of us have answered the question, “How are you?” with an honest, “I don’t know.” It’s natural to struggle with knowing how we really feel from time to time. Sometimes life is going so fast that we don’t have a moment to slow down and check in with…