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Why feeling emotions in the body triggers panic

My therapist says I need to feel my feelings but when I actually try to sit with anger or grief in my body I panic and cannot breathe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system activates protection responses when attempting to process stored emotional material without adequate capacity.

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