Emotional repression is not strength. It's the management of experience below the level of acknowledgment. The anger redirected. The grief postponed. The fear converted into productivity. It works for a while. The cost accumulates in other currencies — the tension in the body, the flattening of feeling, the sudden arrivals of things that had been under management for too long.

Anonymous thoughts about emotional repression posted here are from people who have spent years not feeling what they feel — and what surfaces when the management fails.