((((Mouse)))),

It sounds like you have a lot of insight into your difficulties.

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I feel entrapped by my own inabilty to open up.

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I wasn't sure -- Are you saying that you are having problems actually feeling the emotions or that you do feel them but can't release them?

The intellectual/emotional civil war, for me, is one of the most difficult aspects of therapy.

Take care of yourself! I do care.