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I Didn’t Want to Feel Anymore

Emotions aren’t an easy thing to handle. When we face a feeling we don’t like, we tend to run through emotional avoidance strategies.

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E.B. Johnson
Dec 06, 2021
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“I didn’t want to feel anymore. I just wanted it all to turn off forever…”

Emotions are a tough thing to deal with. Anger, sadness, happiness. All of them can be overwhelming in their own way. When we’re confronted with emotions that are too big to handle, we tend to turn off and shut down in self-defeating ways. That won’t get us to that point of joy an…

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