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Children are Conditioned to Hide Emotions #shorts #childhoodemotions

25 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Doug Noll explains how children learn to hide emotions by ages 6-8 when expressing feelings becomes unsafe. They adopt a fake happy mask and grow into adults who become highly reactive and emotionally underdeveloped under stress.

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that the children have been conditioned into adult normative alexithymia starting at a very young age because they've been emotionally invalidated. And by the time they turn 6, 7, 8 years old, they learned that the, that the world is a very emotionally unsafe place. It is not safe to express emotions of any kind. Other than the most superficial. And so they shut down and they show this outward happy face, and then when things get tough, they get super reactive and lose control because they haven't matured emotionally, because they've been denied that because of the social pressure of normative alexithymia.