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.”
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.”