Not helped by the times you have opened up and been met by indifference, confusion or a flat out refusal to accept that your reaction could, in any way, be valid, real or coming from a genuine place.
Bottling it up inside us becomes the path of least resistance and in so many ways the only way we have to make our way through the world. Especially if we ourselves do not understand why we react and feel the way we do, or have any access to being able to explain it, even if only to ourselves.