“The other extreme when you are triggered is to stuff your emotions. Many neglected people do this, because this is the strategy they learned in childhood. However, acting as if something didn’t bother you, denying reality, making up a story to justify what happened, or just numbing out doesn’t work in the long run. Stuffing feelings doesn’t make them go away. Those feelings will end up coming out sideways, often in the form of an overreaction to something rather insignificant.”