Let me ask you a question. How do you react when you feel sad and how do you cope with it? Long before I trained as a therapist, my response would have been to shut down or distract myself. Suppression felt safer than the vulnerability that came with sadness.
Sometime ago, a client sat before me for our first session* and said, “I don’t know what’s wrong, I just feel tired all the time.” He was a healthy guy, in a secure relationship, came from a loving family and earned a decent living, so he had no reason that he could find to feel drained and unable to cope?
