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And also to express them to others. This is where I think it gets tricky, or has for me. I built an app for micro-journaling how I felt and I got really good at answering "How do I feel?" "What's happening?" And yet when I say these things to others, it can cause huge conflicts because they don't want us to talk about how we feel and I do. A suppression vs expression fight and it seems to happen with almost everyone I meet.

So for me, I feel confident to process and accept them by myself, it's when I communicate them with others it can bring lots of conflict, and yet, if I only express them to myself and not to others, they don't often achieve their function of communication, which I think may be one of the core functions of emotions.




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