I'm doing schema therapy at the moment, although I haven't gotten my results from the latest questionaire yet, I have taken one before and scored high on emotional inhibition. I guess I'm not the only avoidant with that schema What I'm wondering is, the description I got from my therapist says that it comes from being taught you are not allowed to show your feelings, but that's not how it was with me. It was more the other way around, people (my parents) telling me it was okay to show my feelings, sometimes even pushing me to, but I always kept my feelings inside, ever since I was little. (Would that even still be a schema or just part of my personality? Or could it have been the pressure from my parents that eventually turned it into a schema?)