How does a person emotionally freeze? When all your feelings and emotions are trapped deep inside and act like a huge pain in your body? Crying acts as a release of these emotions, but when you can’t cry, your body cries out for a release.
In a way, it is one of the most painful things that someone can experience. Going through their days and nights with all this pain trapped deep within them. When a loved one dies and you can’t get the emotion out of it.
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 anxiety becomes unbearable. It takes over your mind and body and soon you can’t function.
Sleeping is a thing of the past. Your mind runs and runs, 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 which may or may not work. The side effects, if you read the papers that come along with each prescription bottle, are page long. 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 fabulous, it really gets the whole body working, including the mind.
3. Water aerobics is a little different from 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 colourful. You will do physical exercise and increase your self-esteem.
6. Take your dog for a good 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 you.
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. One day something unexpected could happen that you see or read about and the water works will start.
The release of all the emotions trapped in your body will gush out. But until that happens, try the suggestions above or add your own. Everyone has some kind of hobby or interest that they can get lost in. Lose yourself in yours.
Thanks for reading my article. Please feel free to read any of the various articles I have written on numerous topics over the years.
Linda E Meckler
Copyright 2010
