I also think that my Pure O was brought on by my childhood, and I always taught myself to suppress my emotions, mostly because it gave me a sense of control when I had none because of my mother (who was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive and violent). Thinking through this and writing it all down has lead me to realize that perhaps I get angry because of this fear of losing control of my emotions and feeling good for once, being happy, feeling joy, because with feeling those things comes the potential for being hurt, and I just can't handle that. So the anger comes from this fear...but it has become so engrained in my head that it has been going on my whole life, sub-consciously. And I have only recently (within the past year or so) begun to notice something terribly wrong with not being able to feel.

Still, the question stands: how do I go about reversing this damage?