Emotions are a very complex thing. You can leave them out in the open, or protect them with everything you have. For some people, guarding their emotions is the only way they feel safe, much to the dismay of others.
I’m an extremely emotionally guarded person, but I want to know what are your opinions on guarding emotions?
Guarding your emotions can do more harm than good in most cases but in certain circumstances it can be a good idea
I try to have a balance in it, in i keep it to myself I will build everything up way too much until it explodes where as if I am too open I feel like I am bothering people too much and it just doesn’t help me. So for me it’s kinda a balance what to keep in and what not
I tend to guard my emotions, believe it or not. I guess it’s bad…
I tend to either keep them to myself completely or just oversharing my emotions, there usually isn’t something in between for me 
Emotions? What emotions? Mine don’t exist because I guard them too well 
Same!
Sometimes I just need someone to talk to when I’m feeling very stressed, angry, or down, or even when I’m extremely happy. And there are other times when I don’t feel like explaining anything to anyone.
Most of the time, I tend to keep everything to myself because I find it hard to open up to a lot of people because I’m trying to be careful with who I open up to because some people use anything against me.
Though I may be full of anger, rage and vengeance I am working on this by trying to be positive and channel all my emotions into writing in my diary or being creative in general.
Sometimes I prefer to suffer by myself, sometimes I have an emotional diarrhea. And there’s no inbetween for meh 🤷 But mostly I prefer to keep sadness to myself, only sharing it with closest friends. Other have to deal with my sadness masked as anger xD
I don’t have emotions. 
I tend to keep them to myself and only open up to people to people I trust. I know it sounds sad but I’ve gotten used to people not caring 
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I don’t enjoy guarding my emotions, but I avoid opening up too much, mainly because I don’t want to irritate others. 
I’m the same. I don’t like telling people about my problems because I constantly feel like a burden. I also guard my emotions because I don’t like people seeing me vulnerable, which is something I picked up from a bad experience in elementary school.
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Are you happy with how much you guard or show your emotions?
Do you prefer it when others guard their emotions or when they openly express them?
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Yes.
Wait, that doesn’t answer the question. I very much guard my emotions. My face is pretty much expressionless most of the time. Even if my insides feel hollow and the world feels like it’s falling out from under my feet, my face: 
I grew up in an environment where if I showed negative emotion, I’d be belittled and yelled at, so I learnt to keep my emotion off my face and I rarely ever talk about it.
I’m a fairly open person, but I have most people tricked. They think they know all about how I feel, but in actual fact, I’m just telling them about my thoughts and they mistake that for my emotions. I find it really difficult to talk about emotions, I’ll usually end up choking up and crying.
I don’t cry. I almost can’t cry anymore.
When 3 of my family had to take all 4 wisdom teeth out. My mom and dad thought I would cry but it turn out to be my sister crying 
. Me and my brother are the strong one who doesn’t show emotions
( it didn’t hurt to me but they put you to sleep 
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Its necessary
But…im bias in that opinion.