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Tracy-Kate Teleke, PsyD, M.A., LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist
I assist adults and couples in CA experiencing relationship challenges and interpersonal struggles including anxiety, depression, and a myriad of other life challenges.
Top Rated Answers
To relieve the stress of keeping those feelings in, to share with someone and devise different options to a problem, first step in relieving stress
Sharing how you feel might be scary for some of us and it might be all too easy for others, either way, it is very important.
Well picture this, you are a kettle and your emotions are the fluid inside. If you don't let that steam out, how will anyone know that the liquid has boiled? If you hold in all your emotions, no one will know how you feel.
Go on and try your best, talk to a friend, talk to family, talk to you pet. Every little bit counts.
Sharing a feeling not only makes you feel good but also gives you a prospective on someone else's eyes. If you have a problem with something and you tell a close friend or s family member they are able to advise you on what's important and how to over come it.
Anonymous
March 19th, 2018 4:20am
Sharing your feelings with someone helps you feel light and right about yourself. Also that can help you solving out problems
Anonymous
March 19th, 2018 8:43pm
it is important to express yourself in any way, especially to others
Sharing your feelings (Good and Bad) helps you to deal with things and it also gives other people know how you are feeling and can support you.
Because feelings can lead us to different places.
Sometimes sharing them can build so much.
It may feel tricky because sometimes we share feelings when we don't suppose to.
But I think sharing feelings in general is an art that teaches us so much
The most powerful thing communication and understanding
It really helps and makes you feel a ton better. Releasing a bunch of cooped up feelings makes you feel a lot more relaxed and better about the situation
It is important for others to understand and support the current state you are in. It will also improve your trust.
It is important so that someone can help you to thebest of their ability and try to understand what you are going through, Keeping things bottled can be unhealthy
Naming your feeling or emotion can help to identify just how you are feeling so that you are able to acknowledge & cope with that feeling.
So you don't feel trapped and alone, it's important to open up to the people you love about how you're feeling. It opens doors to opportunities to get potential help, hope that helps.
It's important to share your feelings because It can give that other person a view on what you feel inside. They can understand you better, what you're feeling and why perhaps you're feeling the way you are. Communication is key.
Anonymous
April 21st, 2018 1:55am
Humans are fundamentally a social animal, we can suffer severe issues in mental growth and development if we do not communicate and seek comfort in others, it is hardwired into our brains to be this way. So by extension sharing our feelings can help achieve these feelings of comfort from others assuming they are an emphatic listener.
It is important to share your feelings so that you can effectively communicate and problem solve. It is also a stress reliever to share your feelings instead of bottling them up!
To understand myself better and grow self-compassion. Sharing also helps to reinforce connections with others
Keeping your feelings bottled up for long time can effect your mental health it's always healthy to share and talk about your feelings to someone whom you trust,it makes you feel as some burden is off your chest.
Even just voicing or speaking our feelings helps us release the thoughts and emotions from us. It can give us perspective, hear how it really sounds (not just in our heads), and helps us take control over our feelings.
If it is sharing feelings about a situation or a person, it is important to share so that we can communicate with others and develop an understanding of where each of us is at. People cannot know what you are thinking or feeling unless you share them. In doing so, you break down tension and allow for conversation to flow.
Anonymous
May 11th, 2018 10:24pm
Because you cannot and should not keep anything bottled up, it’s against the human nature. It’s toxic to bottle your emotions so by sharing your emotions, you’re opening up your bottle and pouring your feelings which is healthy
Sharing feelings with another trusted person means we are no longer living in secrecy and it gives permission to that person to be supportive in a time that we might otherwise not know how to ask.
It can help you put out your feelings into words and allows you to truly understand how you're feeling
Talking about your feelings, hard as it may be, helps to lighten the load a little. Keeping things bottled up only works until it doesn't. Eventually, those feelings build up and come out, whether we like it or not. Speaking from personal experience, the longer you hold things in, the heavier the weight feels. Talking about how we feel may not solve our problem, but it allows us to gain perspective and look at things in a different light so that we can better understand ourselves. Sharing our feelings and connecting with people help us feel less alone.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 9:05am
It's important to talk, because it helps you relieve your frustrations and it might also give you new perspective.
Humans are social creatures, bottling them up isn't natural. Your parents, friends and teachers can help :)
Getting those feelings on the table allows us to cool down knowing we don't have these feelings contained, ravaging inside us. Other people then can help you solve those issues.
So others can understand why you are feeling the way you are. And once shared these emotions it feels like your chest is lighter because emotions of anger, sadness, happiness can make a deeper connection along fellow people.
Anonymous
June 17th, 2018 9:08pm
To gain new perspectives on an otherwise misconceived situation, and to let others experiencing the same emotions know that they're not alone (including thyself).
It is important to share feelings because if the feelings are bottled in, they have a tendency to explode in a fast worse fashion. Plus, talking can give rise to solutions that can only make things better.
Anonymous
June 21st, 2018 11:01pm
By sharing your feelings you kind of comfort yourself, you manage to control these feelings and live a happy life, in which you're in charge of. If you're feeling happy- Show it!, if you're sad, also, show it! You can discuss on how are you feeling with your friend or relative and get over whatever you're dealing with together, and not on you're own! It's really important to share your feelings in order to feel better for yourself and also by doing it- the people around you feel comfortable with opening up to you and showing their true selves.
" Be completely yourself so everyone else feels safe to be themselves too."
Anonymous
June 25th, 2018 2:58pm
Sharing your feelings shows acceptance and compassion torwards yourself, and allowing your emotions to be there is an importante step in how to manage them. When you suppress your feelings or try to ignore the fact that they are there, you naturally become angry and uncomfortable with yourself. I used to pretend I didn't felt the emptyness and I ignored my depression, trying to avoid my feelings actually made harder for me to understand what I was feeling and to start healing myself.
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