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Pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat, while embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, according to new UC Berkeley research.
"We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health," said study senior author Iris Mauss, an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.
At this point, researchers can only speculate on why accepting your joyless emotions can defuse them, like dark clouds passing swiftly in front of the sun and out of sight.
"Maybe if you have an accepting attitude toward negative emotions, you're not giving them as much attention," Mauss said. "And perhaps, if you're constantly judging your emotions, the negativity can pile up."
Source: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Tuesday August 15 2017, @01:12PM (3 children)
Great, now I'm feeling even worse for knowing that I feel worse for feeling bad about feeling bad! ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @05:26PM (2 children)
The infinite recursion of self loathing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:34PM (1 child)
I have found an iterative solution, but it's a viscous cycle...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:52PM
As opposed to an inviscid cycle?