As an ER nurse in a busy trauma center, I’m well versed in putting my emotions into boxes. But what is happening in my brain at a chemical level that allows me to do that?
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You are using your frontal lobe to inhibit your amygdala.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566753/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566753/)
The frontal lobe is generally responsible for suppressing things that come from the lower parts of the brain, like emotions and habits.
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