QC

I firmly believe that many people carry much stronger emotions than they show to almost anyone, including themselves, and it's super fucked up how much emotional suppression we need to engage in in order to appear normal, calm, sane, and happy to ourselves and others.

We - perhaps correctly! - believe that others can't handle our emotions, that they would freak out, get angry, try to caretake us because they'd feel like bad people if they didn't, etc. We don't want to burden them or worry them or annoy them, so... we don't.

We might also - perhaps correctly! - believe that we can't handle our own emotions, that our sadness, fear, and anger will crush us under its weight; we have stories about these emotions that cause them to generate more emotions in a runaway feedback loop.