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Breaking Down Emotional Bypassing: How It Impacts My Relationships and My Mental Health
It has been already a couple of months in which I can’t skip a crying session. I can’t even say is due to anxiety or a panic attack. I don’t fully understand what’s going on. My body just goes physically into hyperactive alertness that takes anything and distorts into a mass of scenarios to a threshold where I need to be crying.
Some days are easier to just cry a little without having to feel physically defeated, but the difficult days are when even before 7 pm, I’m already holding my body together because I can’t stop internally screaming that I’m breaking down again.
I know that I’m not the only one suffering from this kind of emotional breakdown.
There are many out there in the world who are going through similar experiences. And while it can be a very lonely and isolating feeling, it’s important to remember that we aren’t alone. That there is someone else out there going through the same thing. The shared humanity of things, as Kristin Neff put in “Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself”.
Are there any benefits from remembering our shared humanity?
I need to allow myself to cultivate empathy and compassion, towards myself. I have…