Suffering is something we either do with stoicism, or without. But it's better with diligence. It's based on mental and physical pain and can be mild, or intolerable. The intensity of suffering, also depends on the duration and frequency of its occurrence. No matter your suffering, it is important to let someone know how you feel.
Burying something doesn't make your suffering go away
Suffering happens. Burying how you feel in the hope that what you feel will go, won't help. Talking about an issue, how you feel, will go away when you deal with the issue. It's important not to let what you're feeling go inwards.
Suffering in Silence
Through mental illness, many people in the world today suffer in silence. We’re living secret lives through anxiety, depression, and social phobias, and other debilitating psychiatric conditions. For those who struggle with talking about how they feel, they're not living their lives on their own terms.
Suffering in Silence Reinforces our Symptoms
Suffering in silence, reinforces our symptoms, a resistance and creates persistence. Suffering without finding a voice, highlights our isolation and may create stigma. It may also stop us from healing or clearing negative thoughts. It may also delay treatment and can prolong suffering. Finding a voice is the only way to heal. It is important to talk about how you feel.
I am a little sensitive about people seeing my vulnerabilities, that's why I prefer to suffer in silence most of the time.
I guess my pride is my most outstanding feature, but that's not always a good thing.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I think the most beautiful qualities are our vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities show the human side, which we invariably don't get to see.
If more of us showed our more vulnerable side, how much better we would all be. The problem you have is that people play on other people's vulnerabilities.
Therefore, it's not our vulnerabilities that are the problem, it's people.
I agree, thank you Ilana. I know I'm unwilling to show my flimsy feelings at times, perhaps afraid I'll be misunderstood. Some may interpret my suffering as weakness.
Unfortunately, I think of it that way sometimes.
Thanks Tim. I think sometimes it's okay to be misunderstood.
As long as you know the truth and live by your own truths, it doesn't matter about anyone else, or what they think.
We worry too much about others and what they think. As I have learned to my cost over the years, that simply doesn't work.
We suffer less when we think about ourselves and shut other people's thoughts out, where it's necessary.