my hot take is that emotional repression is a sign of maturity, not immaturity
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That's why the adults call the emotionally repressed kids "so mature for their age".
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until we find the courage to feel them again, basically.
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From my experience, yes. I'm 37 and it's taken me 4 years of intense personal development work (including 2 years of working with a therapist) to move my emotional development beyond 11 years old
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congratulations!! on doing the work! I’m in the middle of my process now and, so feel very excited for you.
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Childhood tauma: unmet/overmet need, creates responses (attention grab->anger->freeze) all survival mechanisms. Final response repeats til: 1. See pattern 2. Re-learn response to the trauma 3. Integrate through experience Our solutions as children become our problems as adults.
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28 and I've noticed that a lot of folks end up in cycles employing the same coping habits learned in their early/mid-20s. "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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What is externally shown I think so. But they continue to evolve on the inside.
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I think you got it backwards. What is shown externally evolves, it's easy enough to do pretend maturity. The inside is the hard part. Whole lotta' 3-kids-stacked-up-in-a-trenchcoat looking like serious adults nowadays.
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