Repression
Pushing unpleasant material out of awareness — it doesn't disappear, it only moves out of view.
How it shows up
A memory that »isn’t there«, a feeling that fails to appear where you’d expect it. What is repressed often returns by a detour: through the body, dreams, disproportionate reactions.
What we do with it in therapy
We don’t dig by force. The work proceeds by strengthening your capacity to bear things — and what was repressed often shows itself once it becomes safe.
See also
Dialectical behaviour therapy
An approach developed for strong emotional swings, teaching concrete skills for surviving moments of crisis.
Envy
An uncomfortable feeling about what someone else has — and often a precise indicator of what you want yourself.
Decision paralysis
Getting stuck before a choice, arising not from lack of information but from fear of deciding wrongly.
