Okay. I’m going to just sleep on that, so to speak. Just speaking as a nurse, you understand, I don’t see much percentage in exciting anyone with a flat affect. So I’ll give your posts some thought before responding further.
Thanks for the sidebar discussion. I appreciate your self-control. Heh!
WAIT WAIT WAIT.
I think there’s a big DIFFERENCE, distinction between folks with
flat affect
vs
folks who are STUFFING THEIR FEELINGS
Most of the folks in most of our group work had long stuffed their feelings. They expressed them usually in passive/aggressive ways and/or in occasional outbursts but otherwise stuffed them and did not express them at all overtly or did not express them constructively overtly.
Somehow, I think I misinterpreted your original question.
Sorry.