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Kyle Shepard's avatar

The irony of lowercase stoic being defined as emotionless vs Stoic as someone who embodies virtue and emotional control is never lost on me. I wrote a piece a while ago on suppression vs compartmentalization of emotions. What you’ve done here, hits the nail on the head at what I was trying to get at and loved the examples at the end. Good stuff brother

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Rosie's avatar

These are helpful discernments. I’ve struggled as well with confusing repression with resilience, and now that I read this I can clearly see my pattern of repression has always happened with people I’ve worked with because “shaking it off” became a convenient noble excuse to avoid expressing uncomfortable truths with people I have to see again. Instead it festered until work became unbearable and I’d quit and start the cycle all over again.

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