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What Happens to Your Body When You Suppress Emotions for Years

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    What Happens to Your Body When You Suppress Emotions for Years

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  2. The insight — Years of suppressing emotions raises cortisol, burdens the immune system, and accelerates allostatic load. Here is wh...

    Years of suppressing emotions raises cortisol, burdens the immune system, and accelerates allostatic load. Here is wh...

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  3. The truth — What Happens to Your Body When You Suppress Emotions for Years

    The truth about what happens to your body when you suppress emotions for years

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  4. Key takeaway — Years of suppressing emotions raises cortisol, burdens the immune system, and accelerates allostatic load. Here is wh...

    Years of suppressing emotions raises cortisol, burdens the immune system, and accelerates allostatic load. Here is wh...

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Years of suppressing emotions raises cortisol, burdens the immune system, and accelerates allostatic load. Here is what the research actually shows.

 

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