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How childhood invalidation silences your adult emotions

I keep all my feelings to myself because every time I was upset as a child my parents told me I was being dramatic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inner child learned that authentic emotional expression threatened parental comfort, leading to chronic self-suppression.

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