Ever been told you need to "vent" your feelings? That it is unhealthy to bottle up your emotions?
Tune into today's episode for another segment of what we should have learned in school:
-venting emotions doesn't release angry feelings
-the idea of bottling up emotions and needing to release them only sustains feelings of anger and sadness
-even crying isn't always therapeutic
Basically, the whole notion of catharsis is mostly crapola: ie. not real, not true. Learn what processes you can put your attention on instead.
Sources:
More about how venting anger doesn't work:
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167202289002
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10101875
More info. on questioning the need to always "talk about it":
http://evidencebasedliving.human.cornell.edu/…/rethinking-…/
http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/…/sonjalyubo…/papers/NWL2008.pdf
More about how our emotional system actually works:
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at_the_mercy_of_your_emotions_your_brain_creates_them
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