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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.

Negative emotions are human!

Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?

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[-] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

No I agree with you, no emotions are negative. They all have a purpose, and are a personal message to you (not anyone else). Boredom is a wind up machine for future prospects, that's where you develop your sense of who you are and want to be. And if you want to be a crazy inventor, grab a white lab coat, mess up your hair and get yourself some Boredom. Anger can fire action to improve your situation. Or, you know if you happen to have a lot of money and no relatives, grab yourself a black rubber suit with wings.

I could go on. But all emotions are a message for you from your sense systems. They're always reading the room, they're non verbal, emotional alarm systems are the way they tell you a room is on fire or full of flowers.

It's when you get stuck in an emotion that can be problematic. Rumination, or inability to emotionally process those emotions can cause life to feel super uncomfortable. And you can absolutely ask for help from someone who went to school to learn the mysterious ways of the emotional brain.

Emotions are kinda like a more sensitive and intricate alert system for danger approaching, as opposed to the more sledge hammer version provided by your fight or flight systems (all the same place).

If you don't notice your emotions, bottle or ignore your emotions, they feel unheard, and what does any alert system do if it's mildly sentient and feels like their danger alarts didn't get heard? They just get louder until they feel like you got the message.

So whilst absolutely all emotions are a full and complete part of the human experience and can be vital and essential to life's progression and an assistance, they can also start going defcon 5 over the toast being burnt, and therefore need some recalibration.

And then there's emotional immaturity....

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