In a world that often values rationality and control, we frequently find ourselves intellectualizing our emotions. This process involves dissecting our feelings, analyzing them, and attempting to ...
It's important for the coping process that you find a balance between emotional and logical responses to traumatic events. It's important for the coping process that you find a balance between ...
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Over-intellectualizing emotions instead of experiencing them can be as harmful as wallowing in them without stepping back to understand why we feel that way. Many of us cope with difficult emotions in ...
“I spent my whole life so deep in my imagined world that there’s nothing here for me. The real world keeps demanding my attention and participation, but I have nothing,” I wrote in my Notes app, ...
After a traumatic event, people often unknowingly turn to defense mechanisms as a response to stress and uncomfortable emotions, rather than genuinely processing what happened. One such common ...