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emotional vulnerability

The Hidden Emotional Battlefield: Why People Intellectualize to Stay Safe

GSAP Staff / March 26, 2026

In a world that often demands stoicism and self-control, it’s no wonder many of us turn to intellectualization as a defense mechanism. When faced with...

Psychology says the quiet rage many older men carry isn’t bitterness, it’s the accumulation of decades where expressing vulnerability would have cost them everything — their authority, their marriages, their self-respect — so they stored it as anger because anger was the only emotion their generation allowed men to keep

GSAP Staff / March 23, 2026

Anger is a powerful emotion, and for many older men, it has become a way of life. But what lies beneath that outward rage is...