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Is Radical Conversion God's Back-Up Plan? (#188)

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The Importance of Emotions in Depression

The post-war 50s suburban dad learned early on that if I show emotions I'm gonna drive other people away so and this is in part why when I think about boomer gen men. They were looking at mothers and infants and they learned like you know the mother might say like oh I love you I want to know your emotions but she would reject the child in this kind of undercutting way. The kid learns it's better to just hold my emotions in, he says.

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