Pressure that never gets a release doesn’t disappear. Volcanoes are proof.

Feeling held down does not fade from being ignored. It changes form and waits. What goes unsaid for months comes out sideways, in tone, in sleep, in a reaction that confuses everyone including you. The size of the eruption is usually a measure of how long the lid was on.

Find one honest outlet with no audience to perform for, whether a walk, a page, or one person who can hear it. Use it before you need it. And if something has been building, say the smaller version of it now rather than the larger version later.