How does a person freeze emotionally? When all your feelings and emotions are trapped deep inside and act like a great pain in your body? Crying acts as a release from these emotions, but when you can’t cry, your body cries out for a release.
In some ways, it is one of the most painful things someone can experience. Going through their days and nights with all this pain trapped deep inside of them. When a loved one dies and you can’t get the emotion out.
Of course, the emotion has to come out somehow, perhaps in headaches, pain in various parts of your body, or dizziness. The worst part is the anxiety. You feel and seem anxious and when you get nervous
or stressed the anxiety becomes unbearable. It takes over your mind and body and soon you can’t function.
Sleep is a thing of the past. Your mind races and races, and do you really remember what you were thinking about all those hours when you should have been sleeping?
The next step is to see a psychiatrist and take anxiety medication that may or may not work. The side effects, if you read the documents that come along with each prescription bottle, are long pages. You can’t win by losing.
What can you do when this happens to you?
1. Sports where you move your body are good.
2. Swimming is amazing, it really works the whole body, including the mind.
3. Water aerobics is a bit different than swimming. Tone your body into a sculpted work of art.
4. Walking alone or with a friend is also very therapeutic.
5. Paint a room in your house. Make it colorful. You will exercise and increase your self-esteem.
6. Take your dog for a nice walk. Stop and talk to the neighbors. You may meet neighbors who have lived in your neighborhood for years and have never seen each other before.
7. Talk to a therapist.
8. Join a support group.
9. Write about it. You don’t need to share it with anyone just for yourself.
10. Try to breathe deeply. It really helps you calm down.
The goal here is to keep your mind and body busy so you don’t think about all the pain trapped in your body. Someday something unexpected could happen that you see or read about and the waterworks will start.
The release of all the emotions trapped in your body will spurt out. But until that happens, try the suggestions above or add your own. Everyone has some sort of hobby or interest that they might get lost in. Get lost in yours.
Thanks for reading my article. Feel free to read any of the various articles I have written on numerous topics over the years.
Linda E Meckler
Copyright 2010