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?

  • davetortoise@reddthat.com
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    12 hours ago

    Negative emotions are good for the evolutionary niche they developed for.

    But when your fight-or-flight response kicks in during an exam, it doesn’t help you do the exam, but makes it even harder. To be able to function in the society we’ve built for ourselves, it’s necessary to be able to control our natural negative emotions without bottling them up entirely.