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Jonice Webb Ph.dPsychology Today |
A core feeling is the emotion you felt most growing up. It can linger for years.
The type of neglect you experienced affects your adult life in specific ways.
Childhood emotional neglect causes emotional distance but can be overcome.
Growing up with emotional neglect sets you up to feel you don't belong anywhere.
Avoidance comes naturally if you don't know what else you can do.
Emotional neglect in your childhood breeds emotional neglect in your marriage.
Alexithymia is the inability to identify or name your feelings.
When you learn to hide your feelings, you are learning to hide your truest self.
What you learn about your emotions and how they work sets up later problems.
There is often a love/resentment/guilt dynamic between parent and adult child.
Self-confidence, self-worth, self-esteem, and self-knowledge suffer.
Being emotionally neglected as a kid sets up future patterns of disappointment.
Having your feelings go unacknowledged makes you feel alone in the world.
Your own feelings can be suppressed even as others' emotions swirl around you.
Being excluded has been shown to be as hurtful as being bullied.
Here's how to become emotionally closer with an adult child who seems distant.
"I don't like conflict," is like saying, "I don't like standing up for myself."
Knowing and naming emotions are essential building blocks to a happier life.
This fear can hold good people back from many good things.
Emotional neglect slows kids' absorption of the 5 emotional intelligence skills.
Receiving too much responsibility too young makes the child feel unseen.