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| Suppressing negative thoughts might be good for you |
| 2023-09-21 |
| [HOT AIR] You’ve probably heard the idea at some point in your life that suppressing negative thoughts or emotions is bad for you. If you suppress them they’ll just erupt in some unexpected way. Therefore it’s better, so we’ve been told, to spend time in therapy talking through those negative thoughts at length. That’s the path to healing. But a newly released study by researchers at Cambridge University suggests those ideas may be fundamentally wrong. Dr. Michael Anderson, the director of the new research connected the findings all the way back to Freud. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 You mean like not slowing down when you see a bunch of people who've glued themselves to the road in some protest? I'm not that vicious but I'm planning for the next event. When those clowns closed down I-93 outside of Boston about six / seven years ago, I grabbed an empty bottle of Pine Sol and created a magical mix to pour over their glued hands (and the rest of their body) if I ever got caught up in the next one - used beer (if ya know what I mean), ammonia and bong water. It's been in my trunk ever since. Nasty mix, that stuff... |
| Posted by: Raj 2023-09-21 16:46 |
| #8 If I find that you express negative thoughts all the time, I will do my best to run away when I see you. It may look like stumbling. If you do corner me for a conversation with a pitchfork like Bill Murray in Caddy Shack, I might appear to be listening to you, but, in reality, I will be devising my escape plan. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-21 14:14 |
| #7 while they played an economic game Monopoly, or FED? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-21 13:13 |
| #6 From Neurosciencenews.com They say that revenge is sweet, and there is evidence from neuroscience that they are right. In a 2004 study published in Science, researchers scanned participants’ brains using positron emission tomography (PET) while they played an economic game which centred on trust, and sometimes led to vengeful actions. |
| Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2023-09-21 10:46 |
| #5 Suppressing negative thoughts might be good for you Especially if these negative thoughts are about your government. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-21 10:40 |
| #4 if there be any praise, think on these things. "Let's see, should I kill him or just walk away..." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-21 10:01 |
| #3 Everyone knows schadenfreude feels good. I have seen no meaningful research that proves it is not good for you too. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-21 08:40 |
| #2 You mean like not slowing down when you see a bunch of people who've glued themselves to the road in some protest? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-09-21 08:32 |
| #1 "A new study" is it ? ... things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-21 07:45 |