I’m guilty of suppressing my feelings, thoughts and emotions sometimes and pretending that I’m happy and good when I’m not. However, I started to resent people and think that they don’t care about me. If they can’t notice that I’m just pretending to be ok, I start to distance myself from them. This pattern of behaviour is common and so disruptive to your life. Therefore, you need to remember that people can’t hear your thoughts or understand how you’re feeling if you don’t open up to them. Therefore, it is important to talk about your feelings with others.

Everyone is so busy dealing with their own stresses, worries and lives that they aren’t always focused on you. Therefore, they don’t pick up on how you’re feeling. However, it doesn’t mean that they don’t care about you. They’re probably just not aware of how you’re truly feeling deep down. Therefore, it’s vital to talk to others about how you’re feeling if you’re feeling low, not yourself, stressed or anything else that’s affecting your life negatively. 

To live a healthy and happy life, you need to be honest with yourself and others when you need a little extra support or comfort. Opening up to others and talking about how you’re feeling isn’t a weakness. It’s a sign of strength and that you value your happiness and want to feel good about yourself.

Here are some important reasons why you need to talk about how you’re feeling…

It’s Not Healthy to Bottle Things Up: Talk About Your Feelings

If you bottle up how you’re truly feeling, then people will never know what you’re feeling or going through behind closed doors. It’s not healthy to pretend that you’re ok when you’re not and to bottle up your feelings.

It’s a downward spiral if you start shutting people out because you’re just going to feel worse and more isolated and alone than ever before.

You can’t always be strong and act like you have it together in life. There are times when you’re going to need a bit of support from those around you. Therefore, opening up to the people you care about will help you to work through your feelings.

It Helps to Avoid Outbursts or Breakdowns

If you keep pushing your feelings aside and try to bury them, they’re only going to come out further down the line and in a more intense way.

It can lead to drunken outbursts, breakdowns or saying things that you might later regret to the people you care about. However, if you open up and talk about how you’re feeling, it will help to avoid any outbursts.

A problem shared is a problem halved, and opening up to those you care about will help you to deal with your emotions healthily before they start to take over.

Talk About Your Feelings: It Will Make You Feel Better

When you open up to others and talk about how you’re feeling, it can be a massive relief and a weight off your shoulders. It will help you to feel better about the situation because you’ve been able to vent, open up and get support from those around you.

However, if you bury your emotions and feelings, you’re only hurting yourself and making things worse. You won’t get the love, comfort and support you need.

People tend to care more than you realise. So, opening up and being honest about your feelings will help you to see that you do have people in your life who care about you. They are there to listen and support you through tough times.

It Will Stop You from Overthinking

We often get so caught up in an idea or how we think someone feels or thinks about us that we lose sight of reality. Overthinking your emotions and situations can take over your mind and make you oversensitive and prone to overreacting.

If you don’t open up about how you’re feeling about something, then you’ll get too caught up in your own head. Therefore, you will make things seem worse than what they actually are. However, open up to others about how you feel or what you’re thinking. This will help you to stop stressing and obsessing over things that might not be true or that big of a deal.

When you talk about your feelings, you are lifting a weight off your mind. Furthermore, it will help you to see things from a more rational and objective point of view.

People Aren’t Psychic: Talk About Your Feelings

It’s important to remember that the only person who truly knows what you’re thinking or feeling is yourself. Unless you express those thoughts and feelings to others, you can’t expect people to always pick up on you when you’re not yourself. Everyone is busy with their own lives and thoughts. Therefore, they can’t always notice how you’re feeling or if you need a shoulder to cry on.

It doesn’t mean that they don’t care. But if you don’t tell people, then how do you expect them to know how you’re feeling? Therefore, you need to learn to reach out to others. Explain how you’re feeling or if you need support. If you seem ok on the surface, then it’s hard for people to know when you need help. Therefore, start opening up and talk about your feelings with the people that you care about.

It’s a Weight off Your Shoulders

Opening up to people about how you’re feeling is a massive weight off your shoulders. You need to remember that it’s ok not to be ok sometimes. It’s ok to cry and be vulnerable in life.

Expressing how you’re feeling can help you to let go of negative emotions and move forward more positively. Therefore, it is vital that you talk about your feelings whenever something is troubling you.

It Will Help You to Connect with Others

If you’re closed off to people and don’t open up about how you’re feeling, then you’re shutting people out and not letting them in.

Opening up to others makes you more approachable and relatable because you can’t always be happy and 100% all the time. Furthermore, if you talk about how you’re feeling, you might be surprised about how many people have felt the same way as you do now and that you’re not alone in feeling that way.

Other people might be going through the same struggles, and it will help you both to connect and support each other through the rough times in your lives.

It Will Help You to Figure Out How to Move Forward

If you’re feeling down or depressed, then it’s sometimes hard to see a way out or through your emotions. You can feel hopeless, lonely and lost in life and feel like you’re never going to be happy again.

However, by opening up to others about your feelings, you are opening yourself up to improving your current state and moving forward with your life. Furthermore, it can help you to figure out what you can do to feel better, improve the situation or just offer you the support you need to embrace your emotions.

You can’t always make things better yourself. However, expressing how you’re feeling can help you find a way through your hard times. People can comfort you, give you advice or offer suggestions on what you can do to feel better and get through this rough patch in your life.

“You will never be truly happy if you continuously hold onto the things that make you sad.”– Unknown

Summary

There are always people that you can turn to in your life to talk about how you’re feeling. Whether it’s your friends, family, partner, colleagues, neighbours, boss, counsellor or someone online. There are always people who are willing to listen to you. Therefore, it’s important to remember to talk about your feelings reguarly with others.

Your feelings are valid and important. Therefore, don’t feel like a failure or a burden because you need some help. Talking through your problems and emotions can be amazing therapy. Furthermore, it can help you on the road to feeling better about yourself and your life.

Shutting your emotions and other people out will only cause more problems further down the line. Therefore, start opening up and connecting with others, and you’ll begin to feel a weight lifting off your shoulders.

“If you don’t let it out, you’re going to let it eat you away.”– Unknown

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