Maybe you've learned to submerge your emotions in an attempt to survive? I only say this because I've done it myself. I got to a point where I was nothing but emotions and in order to survive, I had to do something with them, and so I stuffed them...I observed others doing it.

The thing is they eventually explode...that's what happened to get me into therapy in the first place...so I don't really know...I think we're supposed to learn to express emotions appropriately...how to do that I'm not really sure...