I've been thinking a lot about emotions and how they have a definite process as they work through your body.
The first stage is the trauma or shock that gets you to notice your buttons being pushed.
The next stage is the rush of hormones setting the stage for the fight, flight or freeze response.
The third stage is deciding what to do with the chemicals just released. Do you run, cry, fight back or hide in terror?
The fourth stage is the clean up. If you do go into action like running away from the trauma you can burn up the hormones. The problem is when you don't run away and the hormones have no where to go but into your organs and body systems.
Over time, these organs and body systems get kind of clogged up, dirty and messy and then you've got symptoms to deal with. Yeah, it can take 10-20 years.
Why wait?
Why not be mindful of how your body works and take care of your natural physiological responses and reap the rewards in 10-20 years?
You can read more about this very cool function of your body in the book titled, The 5 Biological Laws by Andrea Taddei. She does a better job explaining it than I do, I think you will like it.