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When is it "self-soothing" and when is it "emotional suppression"?
You’ve probably heard people say that emotional suppression is bad, and self-soothing is good. But how do you know which one is which?I don’t actually think that suppression is all bad. To understand why, and to answer the question of how to distinguish them, I’ll start with a few words on why I think we’ve evolved the