If you understand that your emotions are composite, you can gain more control. But the Stoics would also say there are aspects of your emotion that are involuntary. So many mental health problems revolve around people confusing these two things and trying really hard to suppress or avoid any voluntary components of emotion.
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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