Emotional repression from "summary" of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Emotional repression is a potent weapon against the self. It is a kind of emotional martial law, the controlled demolition of our most dangerous impulses. But what happens when the enemy is not external, but internal? What happens when the enemy is the self? When we turn that martial law against ourselves, we become the dictator of our own emotional landscape. We become the enforcer of our own silence. Repression is a form of self-imposed censorship. It is the act of burying our emotions deep within ourselves, out of fear of what might happen if they were allowed to surface. It is the act of building walls around our vulnerability, of fortifying our emotional borders. But these walls do not keep our emotions out; they keep them in. They imprison our feelings, chaining them to the darkest corners of our minds. Emotional repression is a form of emotional self-harm. It is the act of turning our own emotions against ourselves, of weaponizing our vulnerability. It i...
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