Am I Normal?emotions
I tell myself my feelings about something are not worth making a big deal of
Emotional minimisation — the internal version of 'I'm fine' — is a coping mechanism that reduces the cognitive burden of processing difficult feelings. It often develops as a response to environments where expressing emotions had social costs. Suppressed emotions require more mental energy than processed ones.
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Studies in affective neuroscience show that labeling an emotion — putting it into words — reduces the intensity of the emotional experience by activating the prefrontal cortex and calming the amygdala.
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