Sweety, when you repress one emotion, you repress all of them. It's not a selective process. If you keep doing it, they'll eventually come out, sometimes all at once. It won't take much, either, just like the straw that broke the camel's back.

For practically all my life, I repressed my emotions because it was my way of handling things. I couldn't handle the betrayal, pain, fear, abandonment, etc that the Old ***** had set in motion. You know what Dex said in my Grief thread about fear causing anger? That's how I dealt with almost everything in my life. I was being angry at things I didn't even need to be angry about.

I agree with Wisewoman and SweetCrusader about needing to take it slow, bit by bit and on your own time. But it's definetely not good to supress!! I still find myself doing it now and it's sure hard to handle!





<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>