Sachit GuptaFounder, CreatorsMBA.com · Founder at CreatorsMBA.com

SUPPRESSING EMOTIONS? Watch This. #shorts

7 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A man recalls his father teaching him that anger was irrational and violent, so he learned to suppress it rather than process it. The conversation explores the difference between ignoring emotions and holding them in while still feeling them, and how family messages shape emotional habits.

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I've probably done this and I've seen a lot of people do this. You were basically just suppressing and putting down your emotions and just putting them down and not really completely ignoring it? Or is that you're completely feeling them and letting them process or something else? Because I see people go down both these different paths and they're very separate, but they might call them the same thing.
I think it's a great question. I certainly think during my high school period it was suppression. In my household, my dad was very rational. And I remember, you know, if I came home from school and I was angry because some bullies had picked on me or something like that, my dad was like, look, anger is irrational. Violence doesn't solve anything. And so implicit in what he's saying is, okay, like there's something wrong with your way of thinking if you're angry. And second, there's this link between, synonymous between anger and violence, right? So that's some of the training that I'm getting in this.