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Enjoying Your Emotions

Emotions have a bad rep these days. Especially in medical research, emotions are usually the enemies. This orientation is understandable with respect to rage, but laughing and crying also are treated as pathological. There are many studies of a new diagnosis called Emotional Lability (EL) and the even more extreme one, Emotional Incontinence (EI). Read More

Opinion

Yes I think the experts are right because people always have thoso problems of depresion and in my case I been throug this and it is really bad to focus only in bad things and why not enjoy our emotions,my grandmother always said that cry is a good medicine to clean you inside and it really does at the end you enjoy it.

Opinion

Yes I think the experts are right because people always have thoso problems of depresion and in my case I been throug this and it is really bad to focus only in bad things and why not enjoy our emotions,my grandmother always said that cry is a good medicine to clean you inside and it really does at the end you enjoy it.

Emotional Shock

I was so depressed that I felt that if felt my emotion fully, I would possibly go into shock or even die. In meditation I felt the depression emotion in a suppressed way, kind of like viewing it from a distane. It left me vividly spaced out and detached. But the pain came over and over and over again. Ok, here it comes, tere it goes. 1,2, here it comes, feel it, it's gone. 1,2,3 ok here it comes...

Depression

Sounds painful and confusing. Are you on antidepressants? If so,
for how long?

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Thomas J. Scheff is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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