emotional time bomb 

Someone who keeps to themselves but listen to everyone else's problems. On the outside, this person is quiet but cautious. On the inside, this person is dealing with conflicts (feeling lonely, unappreciated, worthless, etc). This person never let's people in, so expressing any feelings is uncomfortable. Once in a while, this "time bomb" has no more room for emotions, exploding into anger and tears from frustration.

"Susan won't let anyone in. She's bound to explode like an emotional time bomb if she keeps everything inside like this."

emotional time bomb by Sadnesswashername November 2, 2013

emotional punching bag 

When another person, typically the person you like, uses you to get rid of all their problems (anger, frustration, sadness etc.) and could care less about you.

This girl I liked treated me like an emotional punching bag. She always came to me when she had problems, but never really cared for me.

emotional punching bag by therealcoolguy November 25, 2016

emotional abstinence 

a self-protective series of behaviors intended to protect male egos from emotional involvement that could otherwise cause trauma, drama, or stress.

Billy likes Amy from class, but his emotional abstinence prevents him from being hurt by the fact that Amy has a boyfriend.

emotional abstinence by Jason C. M. Buckley January 8, 2008

emotionally-numb 

A term relating to apathy, the complete lack of emotions.

"I'm so emotionally-numb that I didn't react to see a picture of an aborted baby.....I guess that is bad, isn't it. It makes me think, but I don't express it."
-me

emotionally-numb by Dave April 16, 2004

Emotionally Scarred 

its when your heart been broke a lot of times so u bout use to it, its still hurts but u use to it

like lil baby said "im emotionally scarred it ain't even yo fault"

Emotionally Scarred by SHE.KNOWS.IT.ALL October 5, 2020

Emotional [Rollercoaster]

The term Emotional Rollercoaster was coined by Dr. N. Amundson in dealing with unemployment, first in a research article: Amundson, N.E., & Borgen, W. (1982). The dynamics of unemployment: Job loss and job search. Personnel and Guidance Journal, 60, 562-564. It was most likely made popular when Nelson Canada published their booklet At the Controls:Charting your course through unemployment in 1987. Approximately 960,000 copies of this book were bought by the Gov't of Canada and distributed to people dealing with unemployment between 1987 and 1996.

"Shock! Relief! Sadness! Excitement! Frustration! Lack of energy! Hopelessness! Determination! People feel many different emotions when they are out of work. these feelings may be a bit different from one person to another depending on how you lost your job, how long you have been out of work, your future possibilities, and whether you can provide for your family or others who depend on you.

However, many of the unemployed people we talked with described similar patterns of emotions. They described these feelings as an "emotional rollercoaster" that kept them off balance… " (Amundson and Borgen, At the Controls, 1987)

Emotional [Rollercoaster] by Ergon Communications February 5, 2013

emotional intelligence 

Ability to identify emotions in self and others. Something Corinne on the bachelor apparently didn't have.

Taylor: She's so dumb, I had to define emotional intelligence to her.

emotional intelligence by Berryjam February 8, 2017