###### 🛡️ Emotional Suppression Often conflated with [[💡 Emotional Regulation|emotional regulation]], it’s a conscious effort to control, manage, or [[💡 Exiles|lock away]] [[⭐️ Emotions|emotions]] through various [[Protector Strategies 🛡️]]. To suppress an [[⭐️ Emotions|emotion]] is to [[💡 Exiles|exile]] the [[💡 Parts|Part]] who feels it, and [[🔑 all Parts can experience all emotions]]. So when we’re numbed to negative or challenging emotions we're also numbed to pleasure and joy because we have lost access to the part almost entirely. But [[🔑 we will always have Parts]] when our emotions are suppressed — they just become or remain [[💡 Exiles|exiled]], and that can cause long-term problems as [[🔑 Parts can use our minds and bodies to get or distract our attention]]. [[🔑 Emotional Suppression is often mistaken for Care]] [[🔑 We need Protectors|🔑 Sometimes repressing emotions might be necessary]], though long-term this can create a [[💡 Polarization|polarization]] which forces those emotions to get even bigger and louder in order to get through to us.