Remember the expression “don’t bottle up your feelings”? Somehow this idea became conventional wisdom and I heard it constantly growing up—but it never intuitively made sense to me. The same goes for the idea that we need to talk about our traumas. I once had a therapist who insisted I had to revisit the traumatic thing... See more

Study shows you can improve your mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts aka "you can just get over things". Also words are like spells, be very careful while labelling yourself as "traumatized" or "depressed", they start to become real.

A number of psychological theories have been advanced to explain chronic worry. One of the most prominent is called the avoidance model, which explains how worry can become obsessive and intrusive in our lives. This model argues that inveterate worriers replace thoughts of clear outcomes of problems, especially potentially catastrophic ones, with a... See more