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When it's not safe to express painful emotions, you can create a camouflage of success and tight control.
Your life can become a performance where you must always be "on" and successful in the role you're playing.
You can break camouflage patterns by moving gently away from hiding and seeking true emotional connection.
Camouflage. You wear it to hide, to be able to do something in secret, to escape detection but get some job done. Right?
It's an interesting thing to wonder about in a psychological context.
Camouflage is everywhere
Stop and think about who and why people wear camouflage in daily life. Hunters want to fade into the woods. Soldiers need to stay protected and hidden from the enemy. Thieves wear dark clothes to blend into the night.
And then, there's the whole animal world to consider. Over millions of years, animals had a greater chance of survival if their outer skin helped them escape detection. Or blend into........