What do you think of when you hear the term suppressed emotions? More importantly, how do you know if you have them? To be honest, most humans have suppressed emotions to a certain degree due to childhood/ adolescent trauma, life obstacles/ setbacks, or just dealing with people in general. What matters is for us to be aware that we have them and work towards processing our feelings rather than holding them inside. Suppressed emotions tend to affect our relationships with ourselves and with others. We need to normalize speaking about our emotions no matter what gender we do or do not identify with as well as realizing that doing so does not make us weak.