Difficulties in reaching out
There are a lot of reasons talking about our problems can be difficult:
- We may be educated to internalize feelings, rather than expressing them.
- The emotions we're dealing with (guilt or shame) can feel so overwhelming that we can’t get up the motivation to talk about them.
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