What emotion do you often hide because you’re afraid others won’t understand it?
What emotion do you often hide because you’re afraid others won’t understand it?
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What emotion do you often hide because you’re afraid others won’t understand it?
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Anger
Pride
It’s considered a negative emotion, but I feel like I have so many things I am proud of, things I have worked hard for. But whenever I show some pride in something, people act like I am boasting. So then you have to act humble about your accomplishments and downplay them so other people feel comfortable.
fascination, i feel like i become fascinated with things and people often but it would be weird to express it. thankfully now that i’m older i have friends who get it 🙂
Pretty much all of them, but i’m not a very emotionally expressesive person to begin with.
How much I miss the love of my life.
I a good man to go back to my alcoholic cheater ex-husband to give my child “a father”.
It didn’t work. Now I’m sad inside all the time.
Being a sensual/sexual person
It really depends on who I’m around. With people I’m close to, I’m very open with my emotions. If it’s someone I’m not close to, I’m not that open with negative emotions a lot of the time.
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How desperately lonely I am. Genuinely don’t think anyone could understand the depth with which I feel that.
Happiness.
I was in an abusive relationship for a long time and it often still feels “not allowed” to have wants, let alone to fulfill them.
But I’m pretty sure most of this is in my head.
Grief
Vulnerability. I always act strong and when I dare show some signs of vulnerability people who know me think I am acting up or being dramatic.
I spent 1 hour crying today and when I was scrolling through my phone I realized I have no one who actually cares enough to talk about it. Surprisingly 3 older men came, checked on me and offered help.
I hide all my emotions, not because I’m afraid others won’t understand it. I’ve always had issues with showing my emotions.
Depression. Some people don’t think it’s a thing and don’t believe in therapy, meds, etc. It’s also just something you don’t discuss unless it’s the people closest to you. There are also people who think if you’re depressed you are damaged and not good to date (co-worker of mine). You already know something is wrong with you but if people find out they’ll judge you more so I keep it hidden.
Depression and despair. I’ve had to deal with anxiety attacks alone, with only my cat having to witness it.
Happiness.
Definitely bitterness I try my best to hide… maybe my vaguely anxious suicidal thoughts…. I don’t struggle with the anxious suicidal thoughts anymore thankfully, but carrying those feelings alone and never telling anyone was breaking me apart bc they never felt super real and I just didn’t want to scare anyone for no reason yet I still just felt like I deserved to die and stuff. It was really awful.
Wanting more alone time. I guess that’s not really an emotion.
All of them