I don't know Johnny......I have often felt the way are describing. That it might just be easier to put all the hurt back away and go on living as if it were no there.
The problem with that, for me, is now I realise that I wasn't living to my full potential. I don't mean I wasn't "achieving", because I was. I had a fabulous career, money, stuff.....but I was not living in a fulfilling meaningful way. I had lost connection with all of true values.
Now, as painful and hard as this journey is (and some days you see it here, I frikkin well hate the shyte I have to deal with) I truly believe that it takes far more courage to go through this, than to hide it away. And that by going through it, I'll find my meaningful and content life.
And I believe you can too......you already see glimpses of it right? Just keep taking that next right step.