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How to handle a lifetime of suppressed emotions arising in midlife

I am fifty-six and just realized I have never actually felt my feelings and now they are all coming up at once.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Developmental arrest in emotional processing is creating flooding as defenses naturally weaken with age.

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