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babybird
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21 Apr 2014, 2:42 pm

I never really, truly know how I feel, I don't know how to express my emotions.

Not too sure whether it is because I have suppressed them all away or not.


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21 Apr 2014, 8:06 pm

Working on un suppressing them is one of my biggest post diagnosis challenges.

I feel sorry for the person who happens to be around when I have my first real cry in decades.


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21 Apr 2014, 8:46 pm

I tend to keep mine suppressed. A lot of that I learned at an early age since my old man didn't believe in emotion except, of course, on demand.


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21 Apr 2014, 10:15 pm

I don't really know.
There are times in my life I when I'm just generally flat, and there are times when I feel things very intensely.

Some of my emotions are extremely strong and annoyingly irrational, like sentimentality which is a pain since I can never really go through my things, I aways end up in tears, my mind flooded by memories.
Been that way since I was very, very little.
That's why I stopped taking pictures at a young age.
I'd look at the ones from a few years before and just lose it.

I suppose a lot of the time I'm supressing my emotions eithout really thinking about it, mainly because they tend to go to extremes when I let myself really feel them.



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21 Apr 2014, 10:26 pm

stendahl's syndrome is a comorbid with me. ever since I could remember.