Is it OK to not share your feelings?

More research has linked emotion suppression to higher rates of anxiety, insomnia, and other unhealthy outcomes. But while suppressing your emotions is often bad, experts say it can sometimes lead to better outcomes.

Why it is important to share your feelings?

Sharing your feelings helps to nurture the authenticity, trust, and open communication that are so important for healthy relationships. Sharing our true feelings is often frightening because we fear how we’ll be perceived and how others might respond to our vulnerability.

Should we post our feelings on social media?

Post when you’re emotional. If you’re angry, sad, or feeling any sort of negative emotions, it’s not the time to post on social media. Often people post in the heat of the moment and it only exacerbates a situation or gives people a negative perception of the person posting. Take a moment. Breathe.

Why do people post feelings on social media?

People post because of friendship, exchange information and provide emotional support. Sure. We still don’t really understand the emotional and physiological benefits/responses of posting our lives on social media. Researchers at Harvard University (Tamir and Mitchell) have begun to fill this gap.

Why do we share our emotions with others?

Sharing emotions also proves to us that we aren’t alone. It eases the burden of feeling like the entire world is on our shoulders, when in reality that couldn’t be farther from the truth, Even if there isn’t an immediate solution to what we are feeling, sharing these emotions with someone else has tremendous impact on our overall well being.

Why is it so hard for some men to share their feelings?

Why Is It So Hard for Some Men to Share Their Feelings? A man’s inability to express his feelings could be normative male alexthymia. A recent clinical encounter reminded me of the way many modern men experience their emotions and needs, and how it can negatively impact their relationship quality.

Is it normal to hide your emotions from others?

Occasionally concealing emotions is pretty normal. It might even seem like the best option in tense or public situations. But when you hide your feelings because you fear how others will react, you end up denying your own experience.

Why do men not talk about their feelings behind their back?

Men tend to not read into the actions of others as much as women do; therefore, when they feel slighted or hurt by someone, it is usually for a much larger offense. If they do want to talk about their feelings, they want to share with someone they know will understand and won’t talk about them behind their back.