What is Suppression?

Suppression is one way of dealing with an unresolved emotional issue or feeling with which we may be uncomfortable. Suppression involves indulging in addiction (eating when full), which in turn serves the purpose of putting the feelings or emotional issue firmly under wraps, below our level of awareness, into the subconscious. This takes a lot of energy to put a feeling into suppression. Suppression looses its appeal when we find another way of dealing with those self-same feelings and emotional issues.