One trick to question your own biases is: "If everybody were doing this, including people I don't like too much, how would that be?"
I doubt the author would like the same, and projecting your bad unprocessed negative emotions may just backfire someday.
What to do then? If you're a psychiatrist and have a need to deal with feelings. Welcome to the club, the same club as most of us. Focusing on work, exercise, do what makes you genuinely happy, do karma yoga, there are lots of choices to be made to fulfill your dharma on earth.
> She added: “My speaking metaphorically about my own anger was a method for people to reflect on negative feelings. To normalize negative feelings. Because if you don’t, it will turn into a violent action.”
For me, playing GTA2 got me through a lot of anger towards the racist behaviors I had to deal with. I honestly don’t know how I would’ve survived without developing a dependency issue.
- Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
- Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
That crap is no substitute for reasoned discourse on the way forward. In fact it's antithetical to progress and not needed at all.