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Is It Bad Not to Express Emotion?
It seems like we suppress a lot of feelings. Does it make them linger? Does it cause other behaviours later on? What is your brain doing? Your brain is regulating. It's running a budget for your body. Oxygen is not budgeting money. It's budeting oxygen and salt and water and sodium, all this junk that your body needs to function. So in a sense, you can think about your brain as kind of the financial office of a very large company That's like a multi national company. The idea that that suppressing feelings is really bad for you is part of an old hydraulic model of motion. An emotion triggers in your brain, you need a let off steam,...