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I've been really sad for the past few days for many reasons, and I remembered how I was when I was 14 (I'm 18 now):
I was left alone by my friends and everyone around me kinda let me down, so I suppressed my emotions and everything got better. By "suppressed" I mean "turn off", I turned off my emotions, love, fear, hate, sadness, didn't feel anything.
And that's what I did yestersday, I wanted to know if anyone has done that too, and how do YOU feel?
I did this to protect myself, by the way. And also because it was time I turned off my emotions.
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Reply by espadabendita
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hi! hope ur felling better now, I struggled with that kind of things too when I was younger and supressing ur emotions can work to make u feel less vulnerable, sad, stressed, etc., in my experience i can tell that you can get "stronger" about how you take things, how you see problems and how can your emotions work but here comes the bad side of turning off your emotions and is that you become kind of insensitive :( and it's not like u don't care abt anything, it's that u convinced yourself to act that way because of the fear to feel they way you did in the past.
Now I stopped acting like that, in the long run it can damage u a loooot... even tough bad things still happen I try to seek help (if i need it), don't overthink and accept the things I can't change, i guess that's how I live more peacefully now.
But that's my experience, if u need to talk more abt this don't hesitate to ask for help (or dm me if u want)
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