Hannah Nieves talks about suppressing emotions and suffering in silence, drawing on her experience with childhood trauma and burnout. She discusses how people develop coping mechanisms to hide what they're going through.
So you and your husband, you're together for 11 years? No. No tears, nothing. No TV shows, no movies, no stub your toe, nothing.
I've always been a very hold it together type of person. But again, this comes from childhood because it was one of those things where it was a survival mechanism, you know, like if I show my emotions to my father who was very abusive at the time, it could result in it being worse than what it was. So I like almost like trained myself to, you know, eliminate that, which is really interesting and also played out in my birth too. That's a whole other conversation. But when it comes to that, yeah, I never really showed my emotion because I never wanted to allow people to come that close where they could see the emotions that I had. And so I used to suffer in silence, which again, like goes back to the whole burnout situation, you know.