Emotional Compartmentalizing
I have been doing a lot of reading about compartmentalizing emotions and the positive (and negative) effects that can have on life. An article written by Rachel G. Baldino really clarified some things for me this morning. Understanding “Emotional Compartmentalizing” and How It Can Affect Our Lives and the Lives of Those You Love says that EC “involves consciously or subconsciously suppressing or “compartmentalizing” or “sectioning off” upsetting thoughts and emotions in order to justify engaging in certain (sometimes questionable) behaviors.”
Baldino uses soldiers to make her definition even clearer with this example; “Many [soldiers] speak of psychologically preparing for battle by temporarily storing away all of their feelings, fears, anxieties, anger, and sadness into little “mental boxes” or “psychological compartments.” However, “there is a very heavy price to be paid for extreme emotional compartmentalization, as you can see from the example of combat veterans, some of whom end up sacrificing their post-combat emotional health for the emotional compartmentalization that they must utilize during battle just to survive.”
I am working on learning to compartmentalize the “right” things and allow the other “right” things to free-float while I work on arranging them the way that I want. In the next week I am going to be working on arranging my own personal microcosm as I (and Scuba Steve) feel that once the microcosm is organized, the macrocosm will soon follow for me.
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March 13th, 2007 at 3:30 am
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