Black men, vulnerability and depression.

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This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Suppress Your Emotions

4. Suppressing Emotions Can Cause Serious Physical Illness.

Holding back what you are genuinely feeling and causing your body to be under constant stress as a result, can also impact the endocrine, lymphatic and immune systems. You become more vulnerable to diseases and disorders when under continuous pressure.

Keeping your deepest emotions quiet puts your subconscious under ongoing pressure. Your subconscious has to find a way to release it so it releases this pressure into the body, which can wreak havoc, triggering the onset of autoimmune disease, cancer, heart disease and more.

5. Suppressing Emotions Can Affect Gut Health.

The gut is considered the “second brain.” Both the brain and the gastrointestinal tract are linked interchangeably, making it difficult to isolate one from the other. Therefore, suppression of emotions and strain caused by the inability to be expressive can cause physical symptoms in the stomach such as upset, nausea, diarrhea, bloating and/or constipation.

In the article, “The Gut-Brain Connection,” Anthony L. Komaroff, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Letter, reports that: “psychology combines with physical factors to cause pain and other bowel symptoms. Psychosocial factors influence the actual physiology of the gut, as well as symptoms. In other words, stress (or depression or other psychological factors) can affect movement and contractions of the GI tract, cause inflammation, or make you more susceptible to infection.”
 

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Mental & emotional health is just as important as physical health. No one is immune from feelings of inadequacy. It's sad that in the black community it's a taboo subject & hopefully we can break that pattern to benefit ourselves, families & each other.

Peace & light to all of you that are battling & thank you OP for making this post as an outlet for brehs to share their experiences. DAP+ REP :salute:
 

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but then you very same nikkas will bytch when someone outside of the Coli wants to talk about toxic masculinity :hhh:
Again. You like they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Not everyone will agree. Actually men on here are being open. And lest we forget that women attack male emotions when it's convenient for them. As you are doing now.
 

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There is alot of truth im this thread, black men aren't allowed to show emotion for the most part. When we do we're labelled aggressive or intimidating.

We need to be aware of our weaknesses but not focus on the or let them define us. Fact is no one will ever give a shyt. Not enough to make a difference. This why I don't talk about it there's no point.

Just get your shyt together
 

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There is alot of truth im this thread, black men aren't allowed to show emotion for the most part. When we do we're labelled aggressive or intimidating.

We need to be aware of our weaknesses but not focus on the or let them define us. Fact is no one will ever give a shyt. Not enough to make a difference. This why I don't talk about it there's no point.

Just get your shyt together
Actually there is a point. Do you think black men shoot older black men on fb live cause their normal? Or shoot kids at their wife's school? If it didn't matter this wouldn't happen.
 

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Vulnerabilities are apart of being human. We have been stripped of our humanity. We have to be perfect because we're vulnerable at damn near every turn. Our fukks up get blown out of proportion, even when we don't fukk up other groups have the discretion to discern whether or not we fukked up.
Double consciousness is easily one of the facets of being black that I hate the most.​

:wow: shyt eats away at your soul :sadcam:
 

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That and the false equivalence you're pushing. None of what you said is effected by being emotionally expressive. They're mutually exclusive.
I'm not pushing any equivalency. I'm not comparing anything at all. Read
 

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Again. You like they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Not everyone will agree. Actually men on here are being open. And lest we forget that women attack male emotions when it's convenient for them. As you are doing now.
Me calling out the bullshyt I see on here isn't attacking anyone :hhh:
Nikkas wondering why they can't gather in circles have a good cry together :hhh:
Maybe it's because you retards always project images of yourselves as the height of masculinity anything short of that yall say is bytchmade:hhh:
"brehs, I can't show my emotions or else I get clowned by my homies :sadcam:"
Guess what? THATS toxic masculinity :hhh:
 

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This neg ain't gonna pay your moms bills, get you through school or increase your income but, you still catching it.

If this post doesn't apply to you then keep it pushing but, stop arguing with nikkas about how THEY feel.
:umad:No one cares


The sooner you realize that the sooner you can move on and deal
 

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Out here in my damn drawls
I have stop showing them because people simply don't care. Even people I loved with whole heart. I've camed to learned that people won't give you the same love you give them. So instead of falling in despair I found a outlet that has taken off for me. It was a gift. I'm very happy now because i turned my weakness into a strength.

And even if the do, people have their own shyt to deal with at the end of the day


If you speak/act from the heart you'll know when it's time for you to be vulnerable with someone or when to allow someone to be vulnerable with you. Vulnerability takes a great amount of courage.

It's unnecessarily risky imo

Trust is often misplaced in people

some stuff shouldn't be unloaded on just anybody
 

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Obviously you care, look how pressed you are for attention :ufdup:
I honestly wouldn't care or notice if you died breh. Honestly. Y'all can stop quoting me if you don't want me to post more
 
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