Bottling up your innermost feelings can have a negative impact on your mental as well as physical health. It is when you avoid to vent out how you really feel. People might do it for social conformity or a fear that they may appear weak.
Holding the negative emotions like anxiety and anger can disrupt the normal function of your stress hormones called cortisol. This results in lowering immune function and an augmented risk of developing a chronic illness. Not expressing your emotions is also a gateway to developing mental health conditions.
We all must learn how to express our emotions in a vigorous way. The primary step is awareness of the signs if you’re bottling up your emotions and understanding the consequences if this continue.
Some consequences of repressing your feeling and emotions include:
- Feeling worried all the time
- Restoring to unhealthy coping mechanisms
- Changes in eating and sleep patterns
- Experience headaches
- Overreacting to everything
- Avoid confrontation
INSTEAD of bottling up NEXT TIME learn to;
- Know the cause of your negative emotions
- Write a journal to take care of your mental health
- Take care of your physical health OR
- Talk to someone