Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Did you know shame often shows up as suppressed emotions? #mentalhealth #shame #suppressedemotions

10 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. Jameca Cooper. This content was uploaded by Dr. Jameca Cooper. This is a YouTube video titled "Did you know shame often shows up as suppressed emotions? #mentalhealth #shame #suppressedemotions" (created 2024-07-10). The excerpt is a single-speaker segment (labeled "SPEAKER A") in which the speaker discusses shame—defining it as embarrassment or humiliation often tied to guilt and concern about others' judgments—and notes that one common manifestation of shame is the suppression of emotions.

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Let's talk about how shame shows up in people's lives. What are some behaviors that you could see that other people are engaging in that could let you know that what they're feeling and thinking, um, has to do with shame? One way that shame shows up is that people begin to suppress their emotions. So first of all, let me go back a little bit and talk about what shame is. Shame is really this feeling of embarrassment or humiliation. Sometimes it can be partially guilt feelings, feeling embarrassed about something you've done, something you're not proud of. And lots of times the shame is rooted in being very, very focused on what other people think. So the shame comes because I did something bad and other people would see me as a bad person or would think I'm bad and judge me based on that thing or those things. So one of the ways you see shame show up is that people suppress their emotions.