Suppressing emotion

[woofybaby]

In my therapy session last week, my therapist said that I suppress emotions and I have (stupidly) been trying to think about what he meant. I keep getting panicky about it and what i'm "hiding" from.

Can anyone help with some techniques for 'unsuppressing emotion'?

[purplehaze]

Therapists say this quite alot.

In fact most people do suppress their emotions, which really just means we are keeping things in which in a sense can be bad for us. An example of this could be "I am angry with mr or mrs x but I dont tell them and it just boils away and I become more annoyed"

It may be that there are issues in your life that you have not dealt with and this can lead to feeling under-valued or not respected for your opinion. On the other hand you may not have any suppressed feelings and are just having a tough time.

Dont read too much into it but may be take time to discuss things with the therapist and let them know how you felt about this.

take care

[woofybaby]

Thank you for your reply.

I think that I have become fixated on it (as is my way unfortunately) and so suddenly I'm creating issues that I might have suppressed my feelings over! It sounds so silly when I write it down, but I'm so confused and frustrated by the whole thing. I suffer from OCD and tend to obsess and then spent hours on the internet trying to "prove" something - I stupidly found a website that said that one of the major causes of depression is suppressed emotion and so I have been imagining all things!