The Neuroscience of Emotional Suspension

There's some really fascinating neuroscience research that explains how suppressing our thoughts and emotions literally leads us to living a life on autopilot. And something really devastating happens when we start to do this emotional suppression. So in the mild cases, what we sort of result in is thought suppression or emotional suppression; it actually damages us. When we get into really traumatic situations, this ends up as frank dissociation.