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350. Greatest Hits: How to Know When Emotional Difficulty Is Worth It

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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Validity of Emotions and Thoughts

Emotions and thoughts are neither fully valid nor invalid, but merely sensations caused by thoughts. It is not productive to categorize them as valid or invalid. Over-intellectualizing and ignoring feelings is unhelpful, but not all feelings are always accurate reflections of reality. Emotions provide information about one's thoughts and can be a cue to examine them, but they do not always tell the truth. Negative emotions are normal, but fixating excessively on emotions can be detrimental. The key takeaway is that neither emotions nor thoughts always hold the definitive answer.

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