It also takes a lot of psychological energy to keep things repressed in our minds which can leave us feeling drained, leaving some to call depression ‘anger turned inwards’. The problem with blocking one emotion is that it often messes up or blocks our ability to feel other emotions, too, like joy and excitement. You are never angry but have constant mild depression. And it often includes being a workaholic. This might include being quite codependent, taking care of other people’s issues instead of your own.
Keeping busy is a sure fire way to have no time to feel things. If you have a combination of the below symptoms, it might be you are denying your true emotions on a constant basis.
15 Signs you might have hidden and repressed anger It might be that really you suffer from denied and repressed anger. Are you the sort who likes to say, “I never get angry?”īut at the same time, are you also the sort who can’t get ahead in life, has trouble feeling energised and happy, perhaps feel like colleagues don’t like you or pick on you, and who constantly has the flu or a cold?
