Summary

Do you feel nothing? No emotions when you are supposed to have them. Feeling like a shell of yourself. This is part of what happens when we choose not to feel anything. Sometimes after a traumatic event, we would rather choose to feel nothing, because facing it is too painful. However, if we avoid the feelings, the problem will always be there. Avoidance has its place, but it’s not the solution.
Cutting out emotions deadens your heart.
- Emotions are part of what it means to be human. So when we chose to lock away our emotions, it seals away part of our humanity. Cutting out your emotions is to suppress what we naturally feel. You are basically denying yourself to be human. Feelings are there for a reason. We experience feelings, because it’s how we are designed as people. We’re not robots. It is normal to experience happiness, pain, anger. We just have to learn to process the emotions and not avoid trying to be a human altogether.
Cutting out emotions can lead to depression.
- Because the past is so painful and we choose to cut out emotions, when emotions do arise, they come in extreme forms. Lashing out in anger & sadness when we didn’t mean to. This disruption of unhealthy handling of emotions makes us fragmented as a person. Choosing not to feel anger or pain also means not being able to feel love and happiness. We become a shell of ourselves. Living but not really living.
The conflicting emotions are telling you messages.
- Anger hides your pain. Happiness communicates what you value. Each emotions has it’s reason for being there. It tells us what we really want. Trying to force yourself to not feel anger is you denying yourself as a person. But instead we should try to understand what made us feel angry and resolve the internal conflict inside us. Ignoring your emotions is choosing to be ignorant of how your body is really doing. Try to really understand the emotions you are having to take care of yourself.