The word "repressed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe someone who has difficulty expressing their feelings or is unable to express them. Example Sentence: He was so repressed that he was unable to show any emotion.
"THE little screaming fact that sounds through all history", John Steinbeck wrote, is that "repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed".
A designer with her own lingerie shop in Homs, Nor saw her life become complicated in 2011 when peaceful demonstrations against the president were repressed by the ruling party.
Me: Really, this idea that climate change deniers are some sort of poor repressed group just doesn't stand up out here.
"People need to feel that fear to realize just how much these conversations have been repressed by employers".
"Women are repressed from politics here – traditionally they should not be involved in decision making.
From Pliny the Younger's story of an old man in chains haunting his house, through the stories of the Dybbuk, to the great gothic storytellers and the Blair Witch Project, in all cultures and times there is something here that won't go away; some fear that is legitimately being expressed – the continual return of the repressed.
But the Leninist undercurrent, though repressed, persisted in the Communist underground opposition to Stalin.
Their nudity is only powerful for as long as it is repressed.
Contemplating denial, Freud talked about "minimisation", in which a fact is admitted but its seriousness denied, and "projection", in which repressed thoughts are attributed to someone else.
Van Riebeeck's arrival "disrupted South Africa's social cohesion, repressed people and caused wars", he said.
They're not so much repressed as bloody everywhere.
