I managed to repress my emotions in my early 20's.. But I started to lose control when I hit my late 20's and my family "caught" me. I thought it would feel like a "weight off my shoulders" being able to express myself again but it's been total hell for the past few years. Now my mother doesn't trust anything I say or do, and everyone is back to treating me as child (I'm a single mother of 3 children for goodness sake!) *sigh* I'm sorry I don't have any good advice... this just plain sucks!